P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.P. J. O'Rourke
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch -
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley -
Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
Wendy Kopp
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox -
Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
Sam Altman -
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez -
Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
Natalie Dormer
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser -
When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
J. R. Smith -
I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
R. Kelly -
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz -
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
Fiona Apple -
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
Ban Ki-moon -
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
Joe Pantoliano -
I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.
Jennifer Love Hewitt -
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
Lukas Foss -
If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
Olivia Munn -
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.
P. J. O'Rourke