P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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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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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up."
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
