P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

John Astin

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What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

John Marshall

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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Maurice Sendak

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Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'

Matthew Walker

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One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.

Jeff Nichols

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I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

St. Vincent

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Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Russell Smith

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She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

Mike Judge

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40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

Misty Copeland

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When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.

Jason Fried

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I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Denzel Washington

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I am not very introspective.

Pierre Salinger

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