William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
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I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.
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As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
