P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.P. J. O'Rourke
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
I don't believe in miracles.
Sam Simon -
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Lars von Trier -
We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
Natalie Massenet -
I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
Eddie Trunk -
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull -
I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
Barbara Amiel -
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
Naveen Andrews -
I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
Jack Black
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Yahoo Serious -
What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
Dan Rosensweig -
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
Laura Wade -
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar
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It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.
Aristotle -
After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
James Murphy -
You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.
David Stern -
In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
John D'Agata -
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
Brian Celio -
Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.
P. J. O'Rourke