P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
Vanessa Williams -
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Jackie Chan -
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie -
The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
Dan Rather -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung -
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
Dan Hicks -
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
Camilo Villegas
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
Wayne Dyer -
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
Jack Welch -
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer -
I have a love for boxing.
Canelo Alvarez -
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian -
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
Barbara Jordan -
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
Jeanne Marie Laskas -
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset -
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
E. B. White -
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'Rourke