Christopher Buckley Quotes
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
Ed Westwick
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Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.
Tawakkol Karman
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When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
Walt Mossberg
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It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.
Alfred Noyes
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But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.
Luke Kirby
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Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
Denise Morrison
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
Magnus Larsson
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
Paul Klee
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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
Christopher Buckley
