William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
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I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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I really enjoy the shopping and going out and getting stuff for other people. I could really give a damn about getting gifts for myself, but I really enjoy giving gifts.
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You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.
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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
