P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I don't care about losses anymore.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
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What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
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I've always been extremely physical.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
