P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.P. J. O'Rourke
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
Jackie Mason -
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
Becky G -
That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston -
It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek -
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor -
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Karl Lagerfeld -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
Rae Carson -
We all get self-centered.
Laura Schlessinger -
Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
Tansy Rayner Roberts -
A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
Warren Farrell -
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
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If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
Donald Tusk -
As Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, I am proud to have written about half of the American Health Care Act that passed the House so we can finally provide Americans with patient-centered healthcare that fits your family's needs.
Kevin Brady -
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
William Shakespeare -
The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.
Jam Master Jay -
'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
Katey Sagal -
It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.
P. J. O'Rourke