P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.P. J. O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather -
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson -
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
Pat Robertson -
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
La'Porsha Renae
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
Danica Patrick -
The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
Viktor Orban -
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle -
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
Madchen Amick -
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
Sally Hawkins -
I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
Garry Wills -
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.
Jenny Shipley -
You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.
Neil Gaiman -
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton -
What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
Thomas Harris -
Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
Zig Ziglar -
I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.
P. J. O'Rourke