Christopher Buckley Quotes
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.Christopher Buckley
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
Vernon L. Smith -
I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
Ida Lupino -
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. Simpson -
I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
Jack O'Brien -
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred von Richthofen -
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Eckhart Tolle
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Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky -
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop -
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Barry Commoner -
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
Maisie Williams
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
Nate Berkus -
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
Adam Cohen -
When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.
Kat Graham -
Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
Cornel Wilde
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There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.
Luis Suarez -
If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
Barack Obama -
When I come to spar, I definitely come to spar; I definitely come to fight.
Deontay Wilder -
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
Christopher Buckley