P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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Who doesn't wants to be seen on the big screen? But that doesn't mean I will be a part of any project. TV has given me recognition, and I need to live up to the expectation of my audience.
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Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.
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Working with kids is always hard because you have to have very limited hours. They have to have breaks, and they have to have a tutor, and they have to have a lot of - good things! But it makes it hard to shoot.
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Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.
