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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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.
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About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
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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.
