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.
Yuri Andropov
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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.
Naomi Klein
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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.
E. W. Howe
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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.
Tanit Phoenix
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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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!
Maimonides
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler
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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.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Patricia Ireland
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
Vanessa Bayer
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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.
T-Pain
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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.
Jackson Pollock
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison
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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.
Zeljko Ivanek
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
Laura Schlessinger
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
Abraham Verghese
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
J. Lee Thompson
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
Gary Becker
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
William Francis Buckley