P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
Jack Dempsey -
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
Nancy Gibbs -
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Vera Rubin -
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
Eden Robinson -
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
Natalie Maines -
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B. F. Skinner
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
Imogen Heap -
The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
Zong Qinghou -
Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
Wendy O. Williams -
'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
Oren Peli
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci -
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
Felix Baumgartner -
Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
Laura Trott -
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov -
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
Janet Napolitano -
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
Angela Davis -
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
Harmon Killebrew -
I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
Luke Evans -
Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.
Alison Goldfrapp -
You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
P. J. O'Rourke