William F. Buckley, Jr. Quotes

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2008

Topics

JobPreparationPowerfulComplicated

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

Joe Morton

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You get the older version of women that you've played before.

Jennifer Coolidge

WomenYouGetOlderVersionBefore

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

John Casey

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

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I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

Stephen Baldwin

GodThinkCountryNowEverything

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

Roger Bannister

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It's all about me, no matter who I'm fighting.

Rose Namajunas

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Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

Ron Fournier

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For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

Luke Evans

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My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand.

Joyce Carol Oates

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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Brooke Shields

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I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?

Willie Geist

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