William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
