P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
Barbara Fialho
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I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
Zoe Saldana
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
Sam Palladio
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I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.
Norma Deloris Egstrom
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
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It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.
Jenny Slate
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I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
Charles Saatchi
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
P. J. O'Rourke