P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
Karl Liebknecht -
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf -
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
Ian Hecox -
We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
Omar Ahmad
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
Laila Ali -
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan -
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
Valentina Matviyenko -
I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Gabourey Sidibe -
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
Marat Safin -
I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
Karin Slaughter -
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
Barry Lopez -
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
Ted Turner -
I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
Parker Harris -
I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
Karen Robards
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For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.
Thomas Hobbes -
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst -
Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.
Lainie Kazan -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke