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 did try theatre out when I was little. I did roles as a child actress. My parents didn't push me into it. But I was up for it. I didn't enjoy doing eight shows a week, though. That repetitiveness didn't appeal to me. I love doing something different every day and travelling. You can't do that in the theatre.
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I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.
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How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
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I think any girl would throw me under a bus to be within five feet of Robert Pattinson. I actually think he's an attractive guy. And I watched most of 'Twilight,' and I think he was really intriguing.
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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.
