P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

Maya Angelou

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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Robert Kennedy

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We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and unity to map out a brighter day for the people we sincerely want to serve.

John Yarmuth

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I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.

Rob Thomas

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It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

Rumaan Alam

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You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.

Judy Blume

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The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.

Dolly Wells

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If you say 'I can't,' you'd better add on 'yet.' Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.

Diamond Dallas Page

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The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.

Denis Villeneuve

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I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Christopher Nolan

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I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

Bode Miller

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