P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.
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That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
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Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
