John Buchan Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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If you want to influence him at all, you must do more than merely talk to him ; you must fashion him, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than you wish him to will.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
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I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.
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There was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.
