P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

Michael Connelly

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I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those.

Merritt Patterson

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Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.

Steve Erickson

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I've been trying to sing for a long time. I didn't realize that's what I wanted to do until I was about seven or eight. I tap danced since I was three years old, and that's all I did.

Trevor Jackson

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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

Lisa Ling

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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Jose Marti

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It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

Christine Gregoire

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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Anthony Kennedy

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I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It's why you want to meet somebody who's in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don't necessarily want to be with another actor.

Winona Ryder

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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

Penn Jillette

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The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

Scott Turow

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There's no excuse for rudeness.

Tyra Banks

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