William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
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Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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I just don't think I'm a very good singer.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox
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Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.
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There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
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I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
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I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.
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The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.
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You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.
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Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.
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The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
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As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.
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Things are useless without practice.
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
