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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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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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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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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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 like to play by my own rules.
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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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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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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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I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.
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The most important gain is that each member of society will be able to predict the other’s actions. Concomitantly, the interaction of both becomes predictable… Many actions are possible on a low level of attention. Each action of one is no longer a source of astonishment and potential danger to the other.
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Growing up it all seems so one-sidedOpinions all providedThe future pre-decidedDetached and subdividedIn the mass production zoneNowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone - Subdivisions (1982)
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I had to be an adult very quickly and didn't have any friends.
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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.
