Christopher Buckley Quotes
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
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I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
