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

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

William Francis Buckley

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

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• I was a tomboy.

  

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• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

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• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

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• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

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• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

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• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

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• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

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• Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

  

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• I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

  

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

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• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

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• The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

  

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• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

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• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

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• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

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• Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

  

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• People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.

  

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• I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.

  

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• My first year of high school, I attended Duval High, home of the Duval Tigers. It's located in one of most notorious neighborhoods in the Prince George's County, Maryland, area.

  

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• Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

  

  William Francis Buckley
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