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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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'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
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I never took to Hollywood.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
