P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

P. J. O'Rourke

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You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker

GodAloneFakeYouKnow

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker

FamilyHomeYouGoLeaveFortune

I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.

Amanda Peet

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With rock n' roll and touring comes a lot of good and bad decisions. These guys who are 21, they're out there, and they're not indestructible. The history of rock n' roll tells us, and so a lot of these guys are on this road to destruction.

Sonny Sandoval

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I love having boyfriends. I love dating. I do not want a husband in my house.

Shonda Rhimes

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Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.

Tommy Ramone

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It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently.

Tom Frieden

RoadEndActAntibioticsUnless

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Rithy Panh

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Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.

Rob Bell

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If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

Mike Pompeo

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I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

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