Christopher Buckley Quotes
With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I was a tomboy.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
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Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.
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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
