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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Health Government People More Seat

I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I've lost someone or I've seen a sick child, I've had conversations with Him in which I've had to ask, 'How can that be right?'

Melissa McCarthy

God Relationship Child People Treat

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

Life Light Darkness Perfection Push

When you get to Hollywood, you have to start from zero, whatever you've done before.

Start You Done Hollywood Whatever

When you're wearing pointe shoes, honestly, they hurt - a lot - every day.

Mary Helen Bowers

Shoes Day Hurt You Every Day Every

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

Me Boots You Down Sometimes Write

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Ignore You Career

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Music Time Words People Think Know

I can't play a solo without thinking about John Jorgenson. I always think about what he would do.

Think Thinking Play Always Without

A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Friend Children Best Job Book Meet

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Women Future Vision Woman American

I was never raised as the daughter with vitiligo or the granddaughter with vitiligo or the cousin with vitiligo. I was just Chantelle.

Daughter Granddaughter Never Just

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Character Better Create Understand

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