P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
Rachel Sklar -
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving Layton -
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Ted Nugent -
The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
Edie Falco -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer -
I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
Uday Kotak
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson -
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
Ed Speleers -
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston -
For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
Kaskade -
A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
Sabrina Carpenter
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
Rachel Kushner -
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett -
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons -
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
Sai Baba -
Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
Hamza Yusuf
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart -
Talk radio doesn't need to be political.
Jim Sullivan -
Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.
Jonathan Krohn -
I will choose England before any other destination. My dream has always been to play in one of the top two leagues in the world. Newcastle is a good club, and St James's Park is a monumental stadium where there is passionate fans.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang -
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel -
I'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke