William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
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I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.
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She could kill him easily. But the lash-tube wavered. Cris Johnson stood without fear; he wasn't at all afraid. Why not? Didn't he understand what it was? What the small metal tube could do to him? 'Of course,' she said suddenly, in a choked whisper. 'You can see ahead. You know I'm not going to kill you. Or you wouldn't have come here.'
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
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We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.
