P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
Aaron Paul -
I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
Eddie Izzard -
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
W. Averell Harriman -
Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
Yair Lapid -
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
L. Neil Smith
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
Rainbow Rowell -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
Mamie Gummer -
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
Lata Mangeshkar -
It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
Samantha Barks -
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman -
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Parker Palmer
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
Kamala Harris -
What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.
Brad Carson -
Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
Nancy Kress -
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
P. J. O'Rourke