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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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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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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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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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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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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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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Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
