William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.
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We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
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Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.
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I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
