P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.P. J. O'Rourke
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin -
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins -
Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
Hal Holbrook -
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
Warren E. Burger -
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
Umberto Eco
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
Malala Yousafzai -
We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
Gary Lineker -
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock -
Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.
Kaitlin Olson -
For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
Jack O'Brien -
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
Eddie Marsan
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
Gail Collins -
And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
Zoe Kazan -
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory -
All men are born equally free.
Salmon P. Chase -
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
Felice Picano -
I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.
Flavor Flav
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No agency is better than its account executives.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Stephen Covey -
Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
Venerable Bede -
If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
J. C. Watts -
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.
P. J. O'Rourke