P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I'm an independent fashion house.
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Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.
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I'm not like a high intellectual.
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Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
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Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.
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The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.
