P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

P. J. O'Rourke

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If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Jerry Falwell

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I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Jesse Eisenberg

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The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

Jencarlos Canela

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It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

Andy Mineo

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I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

Sterling K. Brown

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Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

Roger Rees

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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Jonathan Miller

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The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Douglas Rushkoff

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It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.

Allison Pearson

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Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Wynton Marsalis

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You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don't get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.

Peter Paige

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In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

Peter Baynham

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