P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I like things simple.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I been a cuppa Irish guys for 150 pounds.
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Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute.
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Being an actor has always been my dream.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
