P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
Aby Rosen -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
Irwin Shaw -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
Dan Gilbert -
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln -
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
Camille Paglia -
If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
Naomi Klein
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan -
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
Dan Pink -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
Val McDermid -
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
Barry Sheene -
I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
Sam Smith
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
Oscar Wilde -
So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.
Clive Barker -
I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.
Louis Theroux -
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley -
Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.
P. J. O'Rourke