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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The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.
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I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
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My mother is a beauty.
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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
