P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.
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There was only so much television you could do.
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The will to never give up and to be fearless. That's what I have.
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i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
