Christopher Buckley Quotes
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.Christopher Buckley
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
Camille Paglia -
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards -
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
S. J. Rozan -
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann -
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann -
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman -
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
Federico Fellini -
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West -
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith -
My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
Pamela Anderson -
I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
Karisma Kapoor
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes -
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T -
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
E. F. Benson -
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
A. N. Wilson -
I secretly want to be a rapper!
Rachel Bilson -
Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
Randi Weingarten
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My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
Carl Paladino -
Why does God endow us with compassion?
Franz Schubert -
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
Kenny Rogers -
When I was about 4, my mum had a lime-green Versace jacket with massive shoulder pads, and I remember thinking, 'Why does her head look so small? Why is she doing that to herself?' But she loved it!
Poppy Delevingne -
Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
Gene Scott -
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
Christopher Buckley