P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.
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You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.
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I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.
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Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.
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I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
