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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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
