P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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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.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
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The word of God has probably been the most important and life-giving instrument in my faith and music journey. It has shaped how I see the world, myself , and most importantly, God.
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Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.
