William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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My best friend is my husband.
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If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
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I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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I don't lock into one type of exercise.
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I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.
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A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
