P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
Accomplish something every day of your life.
Walter Annenberg -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
Van Morrison -
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum -
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
Pat Roberts -
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot -
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover -
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown -
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C. S. Lewis
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams -
Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
LaToya London -
I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.
Debra Granik -
Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
David Cone -
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
Piers Corbyn -
America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
Charles M. Blow -
I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
Harold Ramis -
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
P. J. O'Rourke