James L. Buckley Quotes
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
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As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.
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Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
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I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.
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My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
