William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone -
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
Kat Graham -
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi -
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson -
In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
Laura Harring
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
Harold Simmons -
The underdog winning is the romantic position.
Malcolm Gladwell -
One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
Cameron Dallas -
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
Randall Munroe -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
Adam Ostrow
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer -
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
Ralph Lauren -
I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
Natasha Lyonne -
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie -
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday -
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
Yitzhak Rabin
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From this inhuman pressure doping is born because the athlete feels the imperative of having to be No. 1. I believe instead that sport should be a private pressure, a challenge for yourself.
Bode Miller -
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
Taiye Selasi -
Environmentalism has failed.
David Suzuki -
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Claude Debussy -
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell -
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William Francis Buckley