Charles Buxton Quotes
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
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I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.
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Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
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What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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I love shopping! It's my release sometimes.
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Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
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When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
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The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.
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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
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There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
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I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.
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How strangely easy difficult things are!
