P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
Oliver Tambo
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If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.
Action Bronson
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
Indiana Evans
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
J. B. Pritzker
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
Mahesh Babu
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
Ed O'Neill
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
Randa Haines
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
W. Bruce Cameron
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The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
Mahatma Gandhi
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George W. Bush began a program referred to as the Faith-Based Initiative, an effort to get more grants and contracts to religious providers of secular services, from mentoring to feeding the hungry, based on the largely mythological claim—akin to the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq—that there was widespread discrimination in giving government funds to religious groups. At the time, Catholic Charities alone appeared to be getting over five hundred million dollars in aid and the Salvation Army, literally a Christian denomination with strong homophobic tendencies, was getting eighty-nine million dollars for work in New York alone.
Barry W. Lynn
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
Patrick deWitt
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Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
Victor Webster
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
P. J. O'Rourke
