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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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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I spend a lot of my life in back of cars - Oops! I didn't mean that in the way it sounded. Like hence the two kids.
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Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.
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Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.
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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.
