William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

  

  Garth Davis
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• I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

  

  Earl Butz
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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
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• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

  

  Bianca Jagger
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• People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.

  

  Alan Stern
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• One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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• People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
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• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
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• I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

  

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