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

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

William Francis Buckley

• Mind
• Politician
• Eating
• Bears
• Expansion

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

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• My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.

  

  Dan Marino
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• There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

  

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  • Life
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• Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

  

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• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
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• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

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  • School
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• With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  

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• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

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• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

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• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

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• In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.

  

  Gabriel Luna
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• I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

  

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• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

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• The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

  

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• It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.

  

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• My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • Great
  • School
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• One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Mind
  • Politician
  • Eating