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We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Live Planet Spin Spinning World

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Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Assassin Bullet Courageous Desperately Doctors Great Great Man He His Life Man Politics Reagan Ronald Reagan Save Thought Took Whatever Worked You

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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Estate Location Public Public Speaking Real Real Estate Speaking

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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Affection Always Disneyland Headlines Inspiration Know Love Mean Morning Place Satirist Some Sort Think Washington You I Think I Love

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I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Alone Because Become Being Being Alone Child Children Lot Only Only Child Suspect Time Way Writers

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How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Bulb Change Does Good How Light Light Bulb Many Martini Mix Old Old One Reminisce Republicans Take Three

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You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Balls Car Cards Cargo Carried Container Data Every Kind Penicillin Police Red Ship Tell Toilets View Walker You Ibm

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I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Career Most Other Something Son Spent Than Trying Whether William

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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Business Descend Evolved Lobbyists Organically Spaceship Way

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We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Accept Corporate Few Get Hoops Hysterical Jet Jump Know Lunch Make Our Public Public Servants Quite Ride Servants Some Through You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1952

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