P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early Childhood Development.
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I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.
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I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
