P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

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I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

Roisin Murphy

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In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.

Masi Oka

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You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

David Stern

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I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Deborah Eisenberg

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As actors, we're so used to the axe falling, and then we all go our separate ways. I can tell you, the feeling amongst the cast in 'Nashville' is, we don't feel like we're done. It feels like, in some way, we're just hitting our stride.

Chris Carmack

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We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage the dog.

Christopher Guest

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Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Austin Farrer

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When 'Avatar' came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn't find many sustainable dresses.

Suzy Amis

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If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won't have screens on them, but there'll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter.

Peter Levine

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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

Mark Shields

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