P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

P. J. O'Rourke

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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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Every day, opportunities within the hemisphere go untapped, and millions of dollars are lost simply because companies do not know where to begin if they want to expand into new territories and grow their business.

Tony Cardenas

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I gave her life, I can take life away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

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'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.

Mary Steenburgen

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Donald Trump gets it: he's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.

Mike Pence

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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

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How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

David Weinberger

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I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

Chris Weitz

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The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

Atul Gawande

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With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It's not just heartbreak or falling in love; there's so many different ways to look at it.

Shawn Mendes

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One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

Thomas Kail

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