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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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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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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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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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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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I give people style tips in Whole Foods. Wherever I go, people want to ask me questions all the time, and I'm more than happy to answer them. I love talking to people.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
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If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
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A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.
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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.
