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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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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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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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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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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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
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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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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
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With almost no time to decide, they your loved ones gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.
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You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.
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He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.
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The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
