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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Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US.
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
