William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I think celebrities suck.
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The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
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It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.
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Once the makeup is on, it's a collaborative process but it's pretty neat to have the makeup sort of speak to you when you look in the mirror and see how the face moves. For me, the personality comes through that makeup and that exploration of how it all looks and moves. You try to make it more unique than just a human with a mask on.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
