P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I am tone deaf.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
Eddie Marsan
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Vik Muniz
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
Gail Sheehy
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
Wayne Swan
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
Natalie du Toit
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
Om Puri
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
Sam Neill
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
Laila Ali
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
Larry Elder
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Rand Paul
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
Vicki Lawrence
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
Aaron Diehl
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
Samantha Power
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
Vanessa Paradis
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
Yishan Wong
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
Barry Zito
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
Yousef Munayyer
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Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
William Penn
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Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
P. J. O'Rourke