William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.
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Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
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I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
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In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
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Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.
