P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
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Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.
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According to the most outspoken and vituperative Skeptics, therapists specializing in recovered memory therapy operate in a neverland of fairy dust and mythic monsters. Woefully out of touch with modern research, engaging in “crude psychiatric analysis,” guilty of oversimplification, overextension, and “incestuous opinion citing,” these misguided, undertrained, and overzealous clinicians are implanting false memories in the minds of suggestible clients, making “therapeutic lifers” out of their patients and ripping families apart.
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We are what we watch, we are who we love, we are what we listen to; we become what we spend time with.
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I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.
