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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#attempts #became #came #could #couple

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#amendment #appearance #avoid #campaign #consequence

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#campaign #campaign contributions #concerned #contributions #corruption

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#bus #doctor #grew #i #mean

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#camera #front #keeps #me #working

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#campaign #emmy #foundation #free #free world

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#camera #confess #i #i love #love

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#came #clubs #day #during #everything