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

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

William Francis Buckley

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• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

  

  Larry Brilliant
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• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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• I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

  

  Mae Whitman
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• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl's. I can't wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.

  

  Zendaya
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• Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  

  Samuel Gompers
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• If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

  

  Larry Bird
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• To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
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• I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

  

  Randy Weber
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  • Leather

• I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

  

  Bosie
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• When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Society
  • Challenges
  • Adventure

• He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

  

  William Francis Buckley
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