P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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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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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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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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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
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I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
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When I was eleven, I just got good.
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I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
