P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
