William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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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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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Gail Devers
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You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
Colson Whitehead -
The world as a sense, independent of the image, of the idea - this is the essence of the content of art. My square is not an image, just as a switch or socket are not the current. - Malevich
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I've always wanted kids.
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
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A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
