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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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.
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I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.
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I grew up a poor kid in Florida, and I was always in Florida living with my stepfather and my mother, and we used to, every year, sit down and watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' And I think to this day that's probably the foundation for everything I've done since.
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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
