P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
P. J. O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Damien Hirst
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
Ike Barinholtz
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
Carl Sagan
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
Rachel Weisz
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Oswald Spengler
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
Kate Williams
