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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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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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've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way, blunts the edges ever so slightly.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
