P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Uma Thurman -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Geffen was never supportive of the band.
Edie Brickell -
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray -
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
Tamsin Greig -
Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
Jackie Collins -
I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
Gary Lockwood
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar -
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
Wayne Dyer -
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Walter Kerr -
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett -
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks -
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson
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I can never find the right bras.
Kate Upton -
Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth.
Jon Oringer -
Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.
Jon Voight -
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke -
You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
Phil Collins Genesis -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke