P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
P. J. O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Wayne Rogers
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
Wayne Newton
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
Damon Lindelof
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
Calvin Johnson
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
M. Night Shyamalan
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
J. B. Pritzker
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
Tamara Tunie
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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
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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
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
Barbara Bush
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
Cam Gigandet
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
Octavio Paz
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I'm conscious of the fact that I'm sort of a bridging figure. I have my Chinese literary heritage and cultural background, so I'm comfortable with these things, but at the same time, I have to navigate the Anglo-American tradition, which has a self-centred view of what Asia and what being Chinese means.
Ken Liu
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The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
Claron McFadden
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Israeli suffering has to be understood.
Mauricio Macri
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
Alice Hoffman
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
P. J. O'Rourke
