P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
Pablo Sandoval
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Ida Lupino
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
Imelda Staunton
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
Valerie Plame
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
Gabrielle Aplin
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
Irene Rosenfeld
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
Samantha Harvey
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Idris Elba
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
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Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.
Alexandra Adornetto
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
Lord Byron
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The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
Thomas Hobbes
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Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'Rourke
