P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.P. J. O'Rourke
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
Ian McShane -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot -
Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
Brown Campbell -
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.
J. J. Watt -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Barbara Ann Scott -
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
Ted Turner -
I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
Rabih Alameddine
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I have no message.
Zinedine Zidane -
And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
Ednita Nazario -
More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Edmund Morgan -
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
Daniel Cormier -
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.
Jools Holland -
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
Abraham Lincoln -
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.
P. J. O'Rourke