James L. Buckley Quotes

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

James L. Buckley

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• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Family
  • Single
  • Simple

• My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • She
  • Support

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Failure

• When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Help
  • Best
  • Walk

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Men
  • Religious
  • Greatest

• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Perfect
  • Dance
  • Cute

• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Career
  • Death

• There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Writing
  • Real
  • American

• The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

  

  Jean Kerr
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Morning

• Hillary and President Obama refused to use the term radical Islamic terrorism. Big problem. Big problem. Hillary wants to release violent criminals and criminal offenders from prison, that’s wonderful, enjoy yourselves. I want to work with our police. Our police are so incredible, they’re not getting the respect they deserve.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Police

• The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

  

  James L. Buckley