P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.P. J. O'Rourke
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
Samuel Adams -
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
Naomi Judd -
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal -
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
Irving Paul Lazar
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Zoe Saldana -
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama -
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby -
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams -
When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
Viktor Orban
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
Larry Elder -
Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
Zara Phillips -
I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
Cam -
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
Ziggy Marley -
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey
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Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Confucius -
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
Madchen Amick -
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Joanne Rowling -
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
Alexandre Dumas -
When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.
John 5 LOSER -
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke