P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.
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I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.
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My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
