P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
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People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.
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The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
