P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
Paloma Faith
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
Fanny Crosby
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
Camilla Lackberg
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
Adam Cohen
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
Parker Posey
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
Florence Henderson
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The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
Rachael Ray
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
Karin Slaughter