Christopher Buckley Quotes
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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Thank God for TNA: we've had the creative freedom to do what we want to do.
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
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They were my friends. Those guys were like The Monkees. They lived in this house all together... no joke, the whole band all together in the same house, and they were really fun. They were really young guys and they lived the real Rock life. Of course it all went horribly wrong later, but they were great.
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You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
