Christopher Buckley Quotes
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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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.
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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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.
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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.
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The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
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It is very important to moisturize your body! Your skin has a better glow when it's hydrated.
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Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?
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In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in.
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People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
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The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
