P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.P. J. O'Rourke
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
Jackie Chan -
I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
Lady Gaga -
I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. Murray Abraham -
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
Vicki Lawrence -
I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
Carlos Ponce -
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
Ma Jun
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I want to have an impact on my son.
Orlando Bloom -
Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
L'Wren Scott -
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
Ian Fleming -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
Malorie Blackman -
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
Daniel Boulud
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
Washed Out -
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
Viggo Mortensen -
I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
Randeep Hooda -
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos -
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
Natan Sharansky -
Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
Laura Benanti
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The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
Angelina Jolie -
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.
Barack Obama, Sr. -
I like to get up early in the morning and run.
Drake Bell -
Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
John Griffin Carlisle -
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
Yoko Ono -
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
P. J. O'Rourke