P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
Tariq Ramadan -
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver -
If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
Wallace Shawn
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons -
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Sam Shepard -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
Pat Summerall -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
Ziad Doueiri
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
Ted Cruz -
I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
La'Porsha Renae -
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
Sally Field -
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
Hansie Cronje
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
Walter Raleigh -
The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.
Marie Osmond -
If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Barack Obama -
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
Carol Windley -
The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
P. J. O'Rourke