William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!
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I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.
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Conservatism is the politics of reality
