P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
Tammy Bruce
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
Bebe Rexha
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
Rachel Kushner
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
Daley Thompson
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles
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I don't write letters anymore.
George H. W. Bush
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I was able to solve enough big problems along the way that the sheriff didn't come along and put the 'bankruptcy' sign up.
Fred DeLuca
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I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
Mary Docter
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One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
Charles Frazier
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Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.
Matthew Rhys
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
P. J. O'Rourke