P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Just

• Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Home
  • Help

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

  

  Ouida
  • Hand
  • Story
  • Run

• I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I am left to defend the 'dead' Constitution.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

  

  Kayla Mueller
  • Sun
  • Determine
  • Brightness

• I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Iron
  • Curtain