P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.P. J. O'Rourke
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
Samuel Adams -
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
Naomi Judd -
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal -
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
Barry McGuire -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
Irving Paul Lazar
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Zoe Saldana -
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Barack Obama -
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby -
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
Kate Williams -
When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
Viktor Orban
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Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.
Larry Elder -
Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
Zara Phillips -
I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
Cam -
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
Ziggy Marley -
I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey Brin -
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
Aaron Paul -
No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
Danica Patrick -
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke