P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge -
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
Patrick Swayze -
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul -
Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
Ed Emberley -
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
Gavin Newsom -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton -
In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
Maggie Rowe -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
Tariq Ramadan -
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
Kailash Kher -
Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
Yoko Ono -
I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
Karl Pilkington -
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton -
I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
Taylor Schilling
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
Laura Dern -
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
Randall Terry -
I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips -
The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
Orson Scott Card -
Don't be brainwashed by the sun fascists - fair-weather Cumulus have a starring role in the perfect summer's day.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney -
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
P. J. O'Rourke