P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politiciansP. J. O'Rourke
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby -
Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
Gary Valentine -
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
Garth Brooks -
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson -
When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
Zac Brown Band
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
Caitlin Rose -
I think it's important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush -
I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Ian Botham -
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
Eddie Trunk -
'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
Hannibal Buress -
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
Oliver Ellsworth -
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand -
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
Daniel Dae Kim
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467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
A. N. Wilson -
I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
Laura Marling -
Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power.
Max Keiser -
Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
Nathaniel Culverwell -
A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
P. J. O'Rourke