Christopher Buckley Quotes
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
Christopher Buckley
Quotes to Explore
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
Jack Scalia
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
J. J. Watt
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
J. B. Priestley
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
Dan Coats
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
Patricia Ireland
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Xun Kuang
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett
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I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.
Aaron Funk
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'...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'
Tawakkol Karman
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There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.
Mark Consuelos
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I'm glad that spending a night with me,Guaranteed you celebrity.
Robbie Williams
Take That
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I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.
Dave Goldberg
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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
Christopher Buckley
