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.P. J. O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
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.
Kate Reardon -
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.
Kabir Bedi -
The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
Washed Out -
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Francesca Annis -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss -
Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
Carine Roitfeld -
You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
You should seek approval from yourself.
Ichiro Suzuki -
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.
Hans Rosling
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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.
Madhuri Dixit -
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
Garrison Keillor -
In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
Victoria Osteen -
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Harrison Ford -
Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Nancy Pearcey -
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
Pamela Adlon -
Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
Faye Marsay -
Danger is cool.
Bryan Cranston -
New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
Karan Mahajan -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke