P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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Value is what you get.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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Get there first with the most.
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The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside of that, it has windows with an alleyway; then there's another wedge with windows outside, windows inside. And we call them the E Ring, the D Ring, the C Ring.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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I'm not really ashamed of who I am, but publicity for me is not really about letting people know who Eddie is inside.
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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You can make more money buying right than you can possibly make selling right.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
