P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

Jerry Falwell

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My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly big double-pawed tomcat who regularly left dead rabbits on the front doorstep, and 70 white mice that one or another of us had smuggled home from my father's research laboratory.

Rosemary Mahoney

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I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.

Mary Berry

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Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a book.

Michiel Huisman

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In the morning when I wake up, I'll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I'll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.

Jazz Jennings

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It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

Jason Bateman

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I was trained as a straight dramatist.

Josh Gad

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I think all volleyball players are playing with some type of shoulder injury. You use it so much.

Brooke Sweat

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I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Anthony Quinn

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'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

Anouska Hempel

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Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

Phil Keoghan

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