John Buchan Quotes

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
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• My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pain
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• Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Never
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  • Divided

• You're only as good as your last haircut.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Funny
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• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
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• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.

  

  Saku Koivu
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• My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

  

  Vanessa Williams
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• I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

  

  Vanessa Mae
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• As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

  

  Yelena Baturina
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• I believe in God.

  

  Imelda May
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• Make yourself necessary to somebody.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Thinking
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• It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Comedy
  • Angry
  • Show

• You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Piece
  • Patchwork birds

• He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

  

  John Buchan