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I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

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Intelligence,

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William F. Buckley Jr.
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Category: Intelligence

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
  • 2. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people – I don't want to judge it or anything – but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
  • 3. There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but years after we know it was much later.

2 Amazing

  • 1. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
  • 2. My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing… it's so freaking delicious but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
  • 3. 100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. I have some anger issues.
  • 2. I also had to work through the violation of my date rape my unhealthy relationships with men my anger toward the people involved in the scandal and those who exploited me afterwards.
  • 3. To talk about balance it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease and disease meaning lack of ease lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there's disease you're out of balance whether it's jealousy anger greed anxiety fear.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
  • 2. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 3. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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