Christopher Buckley Quotes
There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.Christopher Buckley
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
Dalai Lama -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
Sam Claflin -
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
Orison Swett Marden
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
Sachin Tendulkar -
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface -
I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
Zach LaVine
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
Yolanda Adams -
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
Gabrielle Giffords -
In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
Sam Walton -
I just do what I do. I like to make music.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been trampled by a horse in his youth and couldn't enlist. My mother was studying to be a nurse and, when war broke out, joined the Women's Army Corps without even telling her parents.
Marillyn Hewson -
My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.
Scott Vincent James Baio -
There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.
Christopher Buckley