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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There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.
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People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
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'Faking It' was hard for me to let go of because I knew how many kids it helped.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers.
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Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
