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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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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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
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When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.
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The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
