Christopher Buckley Quotes
I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
Christopher Buckley
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
K. Flay
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
Oliver Evans
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
Zach Galifianakis
I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
Jack O'Connell
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
Laura Schlessinger
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Ralph Merkle
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
Zach Anner
I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
Viggo Mortensen
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
Bear Grylls
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Charles de Gaulle
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
Joseph Priestley
I love being the favourite of every competition.
Katie Taylor
I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
Lenny Abrahamson
You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.
Debra Granik
I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
Christopher Buckley
