Christopher Buckley Quotes
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
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I am a firm believer in the benefits of open markets and the free movement of capital.
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All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.
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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
