Christopher Buckley Quotes
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
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It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
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I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.
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I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.
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For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
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The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.
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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.
