P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Want
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Man

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Action
  • Movies

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • Violence

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Oh, rose that blushes with my love Please help me to compose The words I wish to speak aloud To one who'd make me proud If she would hold her hand in mine And both our hearts entwine..

  

  Stephen Gately Boyzone
  • Help
  • Words
  • Proud

• The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Healing

• I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.

  

  Marie Brennan
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Complicated

• That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
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  • Happy