John Buchan Quotes
Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
John Buchan
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
Carl Bernstein
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
Kaskade
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
Fiona Apple
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
Samantha Bond
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
Taylor Swift
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Ian Hislop
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
K. D. Lang
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The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'
Larry the Cable Guy
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
Nancy Gibbs
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Of course it's tough to reach the number one place and also winning grand slams.
Angelique Kerber
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My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
Jon Scieszka
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In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.
Hank Williams III
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Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.
Jeremy Corbyn
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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
Edward St Aubyn
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
John Buchan