P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.P. J. O'Rourke
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle -
The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
Gary Valentine -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
Dakota Fanning -
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls -
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan -
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
Imtiaz Ali
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
Adam Mansbach -
You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
Iman -
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis -
I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
Jack Ramsay -
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon -
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle
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This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
Frank Gehry -
On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
Omari Hardwick -
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
Chuck Klosterman -
Cast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insufficient tactOne must put up barriersTo keep oneself intact - Limelight (1981)
Neil Peart Rush -
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost -
The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
P. J. O'Rourke