Christopher Buckley Quotes
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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There is not adequate whistleblower protection.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
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The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
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Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
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Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.
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I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett and 'Three's Company.'
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After watching 'Peepshow,' people always say to me that it was more than what they expected. It is so much more than a musical. It has a lot of energy and is fast-paced. You are entertained the whole time watching it. One guy from Germany watched 'Peepshow' every single day for the whole week he was in Vegas.
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Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
