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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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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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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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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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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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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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 learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
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I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.
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The form of my painting is the content.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a 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.
