P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
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We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.
