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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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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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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Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.
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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.
