P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
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Men goeth to that place from which appreciation cometh.
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The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
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I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
