Christopher Buckley Quotes

In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Christopher Buckley

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As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.

Stephen Hunter

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Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Sun Tzu

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Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

Steven Stucky

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There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

Simon Sinek

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Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

Tony Shalhoub

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I remember watching 'Avengers 1' for the first time and thinking, 'God, one day I want to be in one of those movies.' I just want to be in the movie.

Tom Holland

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If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

Jared Polis

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Ultimately, I think to be successful in fashion, you have to turn into the most incredible HR person. It's about politics. I'm massaging egos and keeping everyone happy.

Jonathan Anderson

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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

Deborah Tannen

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I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.

Chelsea Handler

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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

Cormac McCarthy

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If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.

William Goldman

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