Christopher Buckley Quotes

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Christopher Buckley

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Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

Mel Gibson

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I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

John McGraw

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Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Michael Arrington

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It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

Simon Greenleaf

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So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.

Rodman Philbrick

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I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.

Ron Howard

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The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

Rollo May

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I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

Mike Gordon

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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

Clyde Edgerton

ChangeFatherWomenChildrenCulture

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

Bootsy Collins

ThinkYouNobodyNeedComputerElse

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

Ashley Monroe

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