P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
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Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.
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I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
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The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
