P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
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• If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
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• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
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• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

  Washington Irving
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• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
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• I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
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• If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

  

  Ted Williams
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• The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
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• Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like identifying with TV characters - connecting to them emotionally more than you connect to literal, physical people in your life - causes problems. They just don't have the same existence or boundaries as you do. They resemble us, but they are not us.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
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• Hopefully, by the experience from playing the Speidel Course, they will have a better time and play better than they have before.

  

  Garry Moore
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• A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
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• I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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• Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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