P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
Washed Out
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
Salman Rushdie
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
Felix Dennis
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Kate Bush
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
Jack Black
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
Eddie Redmayne
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
Natalie Wood
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
Gary Johnson
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
Halsey
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
Gary Busey
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
Victoria Azarenka
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The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
Yoko Ono
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
Kate McKinnon
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Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
Andy Grove
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Carl Schurz
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke
