P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.P. J. O'Rourke
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
Irvine Welsh -
I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
Wayne Rooney -
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
Walter Winchell -
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes -
Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
Pankaj Mishra -
I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
Tao Okamoto
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga -
I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
Ice T -
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle -
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman -
It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
Carlos Ghosn
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
Victoria Osteen -
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright -
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
Adam Mansbach
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
Forest Whitaker -
Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
Zac Efron -
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman -
Even with our differences There is a place we're all connected Each of us can find each other's light, There's so much to be thankful for.
Josh Groban -
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.
P. J. O'Rourke