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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The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
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Pick a co-founder that communicates in the same fashion that you do. If you are a screamer, then the only way you will ever listen to a conflicting point of view is to find someone who is passionate enough to yell back at you.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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When we come on the radio, people will go, 'That's Old Dominion,' 'cause it's a sound that can only be made by whatever the five of us make together.
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Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
