Christopher Buckley Quotes
I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
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You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.
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I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
