P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
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They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
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People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
