P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.P. J. O'Rourke
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
Ian Williams Battles -
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
Harrison Ford -
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Val Kilmer
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
Randy Newman -
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones -
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
Ted Yoho -
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
Garry Marshall -
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet -
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
Taylor Swift -
The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
Flume -
Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
Ed Rendell -
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden
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Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.
Katy Jurado -
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
George Bernard Shaw -
If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
Mark Steyn -
The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it.
Barry Goldwater -
Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.
Jenny Lewis -
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
P. J. O'Rourke