Christopher Buckley Quotes
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.
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The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.
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Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.
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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
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I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.
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I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
