William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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Our daily habits of driving, drilling, buying and supporting all of the economic benefits a free economy demands has cost us dearly, but none more so than for the people of Shishmaref.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.
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The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
