P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
Edmund White
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
J. Cole
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
Veronica Roth
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We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.
Tamzin Merchant
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
Samuel Larsen
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
Rachel Kushner
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
Otto Schily
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
Naftali Bennett
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
Dan Brown
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
C. Thomas Howell
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Barbra Streisand
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
Camila Alves
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.
Emile Coue
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Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
Daniel Greenberg
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You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.
Eugene Talmadge
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When a couple decides to divorce, they should inform both sets of parents before having a party and telling all their friends. This is not only courteous but practical. Parents may be very willing to pitch in with comments, criticism, and malicious gossip of their own to help the divorce along.
P. J. O'Rourke