P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

P. J. O'Rourke

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When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

Megan Fox

EyesPeopleStupidHusbandThink

I'm an Isabel Marant woman: I love her style so much.

Melanie Thierry

LoveStyleWomanHerMuchI Love

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Sukarno

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We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.

Trevor Noah

LiveAgeInternetEveryoneWants

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

Michael Leunig

DuckCulturesCertainApparently

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

Loni Anderson

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My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

Judith Viorst

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The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

David Souter

GoodSimpleGood ThingsLanguage

The history of colonisation cannot disappear.

Claire Denis

HistoryDisappearCannot

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Anne Hathaway

WorkGoodGood WorkFamousPerson

I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!

Wilson Cruz

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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Thomas Fuller

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