William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I am happy in Paris.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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I have no message.
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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I gave a reply: that my election speeches are available with the election commission. My statements are available in the newspapers. If you will find out a single statement that you can brand as communal, I will declare myself defeated. No one dared to come forward.
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These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.
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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
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If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
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If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
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I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.
