P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick -
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
Abby Wambach -
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson -
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
Lance Ito -
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy -
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo Migos -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
Taylor Swift -
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
Rakul Preet Singh -
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo -
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
Zac Brown Band -
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
Walt Disney -
I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
Kate Mara -
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.
John Battelle -
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Ted Rall -
I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.
Diego Luna -
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
P. J. O'Rourke