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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People die when they are ready to die, for reasons that are their own. No person dies without a reason. You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living - because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.
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When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and think "there, I'm so irrational!". But your reluctance to sit on a probably rickety chair is not irrational - you think it's irrational because you have a false view of what irrationality is.
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
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How strangely easy difficult things are!
