William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.
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I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
