P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.P. J. O'Rourke
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
Dana Plato -
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson -
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields -
When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
Laura Carmichael -
I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
Rachel Cohn
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
Irina Shayk -
Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Ville Valo HIM -
What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.
Laura Mvula -
I put myself through college playing pool.
Walter Alston -
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
Kage Baker -
I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
Jack Valenti
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I don’t think that I want to make any wager if it means dealing with a Church that has grown so corrupt that it makes obedience and submission the price of its saving the life of someone’s child.
Dan Simmons -
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
Edward Abbey -
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
Aga Khan IV -
It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.
Ai Weiwei -
If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.
Matt Lauer -
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Stephen Covey -
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.
G. H. Hardy -
When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.
Christopher Paolini -
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
P. J. O'Rourke