Christopher Buckley Quotes

I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.

Christopher Buckley

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• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Brand
  • Lovely
  • Even

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Here

• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• 'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

  

  Jason Alexander

• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Effort

• And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Real
  • Black

• The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • People

• I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Party

• I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Star
  • Dance

• Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Personality

• I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

  

  Jenna Blum
  • People
  • Family
  • Struggle

• I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Dark

• I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Rap

• Europe is one of the best travel destinations in the world.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • World
  • Travel

• I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Home
  • Career
  • Ballet

• I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • People

• Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Winning
  • Silly

• You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Good
  • Heart

• It would grant me much relief to learn your sons were engaged matrimonially to other white men if I was previously faced with the spectre of those same sons wedding negro women, slave or free, and siring negro sons that could presume to claim inheritance of your namesakes and property, or worse, equality with your purer grandchildren.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Grandchildren