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.P. J. O'Rourke
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Wayne Newton -
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.
Xavier Dolan -
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx -
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
Kara Walker
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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.
Cameron Mathison -
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser -
I would love to work with Matt Damon.
Idina Menzel -
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten -
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
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.
Naomi Watts -
I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
Fleur East -
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston -
Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
Sam Sheppard
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Oscar Wilde -
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama -
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
P. J. O'Rourke