P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
La India -
NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
Victor Ponta -
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
Viggo Mortensen -
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
Ioan Gruffudd
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I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
Naomi Wolf -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth -
I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
Vic Fuentes -
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
G. Edward Griffin
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
Walter Payton -
A secret is powerful when it is empty.
Umberto Eco -
It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
Abel Ferrara -
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
Earl Wilson
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
Oswald Chambers -
Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.
F. F. Bosworth -
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Xenophanes -
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
Ian Mckellen -
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Bonaventure -
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke