P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
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America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
