P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

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• I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Ideal

• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Happen

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• I do believe in happy-ever-after.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Believe
  • Happy

• Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Most

• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Values

• I believe in collaboration and cooperation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Collaboration

• I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Believe
  • Really
  • Terrorism

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Family
  • High

• I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

  

  William Blum
  • Government
  • Imagine
  • Conspiracy

• There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Work
  • Success

• When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Pride

• Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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