Andrew Buchan Quotes
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'
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I'm not in this game to make the most money.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.
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I've been to L.A., it's horrible. Don't waste your money on the flight.
