William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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To awake from death is to die in peace.
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I can only hope that whatever image people might have of either me or Bill, they will hold in advanced until they have an opportunity to meet us.
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It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.
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Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
