William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
Bear Grylls
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
Raekwon
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
Ban Ki-moon
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
Hans Kung
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
Warren Spector
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
Salma Hayek
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
Cameron Diaz
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
Nancy Meyers
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
Rachel Sklar
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
Vijay Sethupathi
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Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
Daryn Kagan
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
Adam Grant
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
Vernor Vinge
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I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.
Elfriede Jelinek
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William Francis Buckley