P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Abba Eban
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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.
Halsey
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons
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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.
Hailey Bieber
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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.
Irving Ravetch
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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.
Patricia Millett
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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.
Sam Heughan
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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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.
Karl Urban
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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.
Garrett Hedlund
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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.
Omari Hardwick
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Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
Donald Johanson
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There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.
M. F. K. Fisher
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis
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If God is working I wish He’d say so Maybe He don’t live here anymore
Jakob Dylan
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke