Christopher Buckley Quotes
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
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An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
