Christopher Buckley Quotes
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.
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Death, disease, famine
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories.
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
