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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Hate Strangers Matter Anything Worse

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

I Am Looking You Guy Middle-Class

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

School Me High School Think Hurt

In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

Jessica Chastain

Me World Saying Look Person Play

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

Truth World You Find Will Portray

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Growth Isolation Design Powerful

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

Music Time Value Holidays London

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

Father Jewish Club Social Belonged

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

Quality Words Think Picnic Australia

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

Think Doing Distance Way Equal

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Good People Help Poverty Lift Out

I've got a lot to do, and I hope that by the end of it all, people will say that Dee Snider was an entertainer, and he did his job well.

Hope Job People End Say Will

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

History Born Without Where Accident

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