P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.P. J. O'Rourke
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Victoria Clark -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
Ed Koch -
I don't believe in strong-arming people.
Zachary Levi -
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings -
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Sam Graves
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
Bebe Neuwirth -
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
J. H. Wyman -
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland -
Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
Samira Wiley
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
Warren Zevon -
I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.
Laura Trott -
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar Mitchell -
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
Orson Welles -
I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
Latrell Sprewell -
I just wanna be a good artist.
Kat Graham
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We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.
Eric Cantor -
I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.
Charles Soule -
I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.
Charlie Rowe -
I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
Douglas Coupland -
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke