Christopher Buckley Quotes
The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.
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When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
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We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.
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The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.
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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
