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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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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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.
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Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.
