P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
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I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
