P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.

Andrew Solomon

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It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria, Australia.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

SweetWorldBelieveYouDownHard

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

Michael Arndt

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We like to believe our fashion is growing.

Tommy Hilfiger

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When I was a kid, if someone had asked who I'd meet if it could be anyone in the world, it would've been Liam Brady.

Tony McCoy

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Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

Mike Rogers

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Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson

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Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bruce Babbitt

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I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.

Willow Smith

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Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine.

Sergei Lavrov

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In the neighborhood where my studio is, in South Central Los Angeles, there are a lot of immigrant-owned businesses. I'm constantly amazed at the level of work they do. It's above anything. For me, I think I pattern myself on that work ethic.

Mark Bradford

WorkMyselfMeThinkWork Ethic

Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.'

Kim Jong-un

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