P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as 'Film is the score and the print is the performance.')
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I didn't say that my son died for Israel. I've never said that. I saw somebody wrote that and it wasn't my words. Those aren't even words that I would say.
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I have no interest in the trappings of power.
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I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!
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From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
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We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
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I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
