Christopher Buckley Quotes

Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

Christopher Buckley

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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

Jimmy Wales

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When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.

Jesse Watters

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I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

Jessie Mueller

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Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.

Max Heindel

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Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

John Ridley

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To be honest, whenever I run away from something, I land up straight into it.

Shilpa Shinde

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If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Tom Hanks

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South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

Rony Abovitz

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The journey has moulded me into the person I am today. The journey of my mixed martial arts experience has been filled with ups and downs, but through that, I have come out a much better man.

Robert Whittaker

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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Michael Morpurgo

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Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Mirko Cro Cop

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My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

Luis Suarez

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