P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

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HappinessHistoryPeaceProsperity

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

Robert Glasper

YouSellingWantOutSomething

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

Sterling K. Brown

MePlayImportantActorSenseMost

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

Shura

MusicExplorePopIdeaWanted

To work is to feel alive.

Tony Bennett

WorkFeelAlive

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

Rocky Carroll

GoodArtYourselfPeopleComedyYou

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Mason Cooley

SoulComfortMoreImmortalityThreat

I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

Mike Dean

BabyPlantsChemicalDesignedDad

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

Juan Williams

WarFreePoliticalJournalismHonest

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Jason Katims

LifeStoryThinkYouFocusedKid

I happened to see a really old 'Doctor Who', the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he'd picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, 'That's rather fetching.'

Diana Gabaldon

ManDoctorThoughtOld ManOldSee

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Cindy Gallop

New YorkAdvertisingStartNewUp

I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.

Brett Dalton

UniverseUpExcitedBecauseMarvel

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