P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
Octavia Spencer
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Boston
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
Ian Anderson
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
Zac Brown Band
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
Garrett Hedlund
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I always have to be writing.
Taylor Swift
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
Caitriona Balfe
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
Sam Graves
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
Larry Wilmore
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai
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It's funny, I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
Michelle Shocked
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Iris Chang
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Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.
Philomena Kwao
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
P. J. O'Rourke
