Christopher Buckley Quotes
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'Christopher Buckley
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix -
Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
Rand Paul -
Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
Floyd Skloot -
When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
Kapil Dev -
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
G-Eazy -
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Samuel Pepys
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
Jack Ma -
I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
Laura Donnelly -
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
Yvonne Strahovski -
I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
Barry Larkin -
Your body hears everything your mind says.
Naomi Judd -
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
Samuel P. Huntington -
If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
Gabe Newell -
I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein
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I love barre because even when I'm not dancing, I feel like I'm training those same muscles.
Payal Kadakia -
I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.
Brian Josephson -
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu -
Christianity, … welcomed at first among the religions of escape, changes into a religion that gives cohesion to society
Jacques Ellul -
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
Christopher Buckley