Angus Buchan Quotes
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
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Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
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When you are thankful in all things, all of a sudden it's a new day!
