Christopher Buckley Quotes

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

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AgeImpossibleIsolationShortJust

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!

Max Stirner

GreatManYourselfWorldYouHead

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

John Key

GoodPoliticsBelieveI Believe

When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.

Matt Lauer

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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeDeathYourselfWavesLongYou

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

SpeakProblemsThinkBedHappened

I judge when I need a top-up of Botox by looking in the mirror to see if I can move more than half my forehead.

Trinny Woodall

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I love games. My favorite thing on this planet to do is to play games. And if you don't enjoy games, then you're really missing the point of what this life is.

RuPaul

LifeLoveEnjoyYouPlayGames

You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal.

Jonathan Anderson

HistoryFashionThinkBrandYou

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

Deborah Tannen

LifeFriendMotherNew YorkMy Life

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

Christina Ricci

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I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

Christina Ricci

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