A. J. Buckley Quotes

When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.

A. J. Buckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 9, 1978

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The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

Joel A. Barker

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I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Jennifer Hyman

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Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal

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When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

Tony Bennett

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When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control.

Roger Altman

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I want to work with Jay-Z.

Robert Wilson

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My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

Matt Barr

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I was watching TV, and there was this oldies-but-goodies film fest, and 'Lucas' came on. I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm an oldie!'

Winona Ryder

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I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

Nick Vujicic

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If I were American, I'd vote everything but Hillary Clinton.

Marine Le Pen

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I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.

Martin Chalfie

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