William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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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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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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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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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.
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What sticks in my mind from seeing the Teletubbies is Tinky Winky's handbag and Tubby Custard. I always remember wanting to have a glass of Tubby Custard and some Tubby Toast in the morning.
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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
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Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.
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The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!
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Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.
