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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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
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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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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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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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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
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Business must be a force for good in the world.
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I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
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The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
