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.William Francis Buckley
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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.
Ralph G. Neas -
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.
Harmony Korine -
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
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.
Randy Harrison -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
Wayne Newton
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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.
Victor Hugo -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine -
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Nastia Liukin -
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres -
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
Zara Phillips -
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.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
Ralph Abernathy -
I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
Omari Hardwick -
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.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko -
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.
Bailee Madison -
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.
Samuel George Morton
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
Penn Jillette -
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Nicholas Herbert Stern -
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
Lisa Loeb -
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
John Boyd Orr -
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.
William Francis Buckley