P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz -
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
Sam Riley -
When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
Dan Bartlett -
I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
Pardis Sabeti
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian -
I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
Lady Gregory -
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking -
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
Oliver Stone -
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
Tamra Davis -
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
Lars von Trier
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
I. M. Pei -
I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
Bertrand Russell -
'Homeland' is not a sensationalist show.
Raza Jaffrey -
We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end.
James Hutton -
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
P. J. O'Rourke