P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
Jack L. Chalker -
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Vernon Howard -
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden -
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
J. G. Ballard -
Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
Larry David -
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar -
I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
Dan Brown -
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
Abby Wambach -
Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
Camren Bicondova -
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Rand Paul -
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes
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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
John Waters -
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
Rita Mae Brown -
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
Yasmin Mogahed -
I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
Barry Sheene -
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
Rachel Bilson -
Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
P. J. O'Rourke