P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.
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My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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I'm such a geek now with princesses. It's pathetic.
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The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
