P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
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• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
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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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
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• Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
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• I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

  

  Yves Chauvin
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• I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
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• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
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• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
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• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• In the United States, I always say that what makes America exceptional is not the fact that we’re perfect, it's the fact that we struggle to improve. We're self-critical. We work to live up to our highest values and ideals, knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly, but we keep on trying to perfect our union.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

  

  Alfred Austin
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• Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
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• You know what gets me? … How everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. I used to be scared shitless if I'd say 'fuck' or 'shit' in public, by accident. Now everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit', 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. Something very big must have happened while we were out of the country.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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• Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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