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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Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
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I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!
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Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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Ive been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.
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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.
