William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.
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Thanks to my fans for support on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
