Christopher Buckley Quotes
Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
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I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.
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We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.
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Hey, hey, what I'm sayin' is -Do it to me one more time.Oh, give you one more chance,This heart of mine.Do it to me one more time, baby.Can't get enough of your love!
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It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.
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Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.
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I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.
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We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
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My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.
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Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.
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Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.
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There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
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Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
