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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Success Failure Capitalism Happen

One cannot have economic growth without security.

Growth Security Economic Growth

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Past Me Lucky Over Years Things

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

Jennifer Connelly

Someone You Predict Leave Going

'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

School Fun Rock Spirit Out Original

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Change Brain You Done Will Tell

It's really not fun to have seen a movie that you want to talk about, and you can't find anyone else who's seen it.

Fun You Find Want Talk Seen

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

Dark Things Characters Drawn Really

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

Good Character Process You Bad Film

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

Travis Kalanick

Time Control Independence You Own

I was never motivated by a contract. I was motivated by being the best. So I just compete against myself every day and push to get better.

Myself Best Day Better Push Never

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Funny Art Culture World Design Look

Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.

Mitch McConnell

Mother Home Shoes Walk Thought Shoe

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