Christopher Buckley Quotes
I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
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I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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I never believed in much,But I believed in you.
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I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.
