P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

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• Everyone is doing forensics.

  

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

  

  Mae West
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• Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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• Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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• You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

  

  T-Pain
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• Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
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• There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

  

  Rahul Dravid
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• I like writing about biology, not doing it.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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• I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

  

  Adam Driver
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• You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
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• On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement - just netting everything down, which means that everything has been turned into fungible numbers.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
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• You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Money
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  • Always

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Debt
  • Rapture