John Buchan Quotes
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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Being able to control a live crowd at the ESPYs, that's fun.
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It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.
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The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.
