P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

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• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
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• What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
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• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
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• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I can only focus on doing what's right.

  

  Pam Bondi
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• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

  

  Jack Welch
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• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.

  

  Dan Webster
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• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
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• When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.

  

  Kim Raver
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• When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

  

  Lynn Good
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• With the R&B, gospel feel that 'Sparkle' has, that opens the door for my fans to be more accepting of that sound and also for me to try it.

  

  Jordin Sparks
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• Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.

  

  Faris Badwan
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• Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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