P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.

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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Model

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • City
  • Day

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Design
  • Company

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Never
  • Thought

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Friend
  • Birthday

• For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Words
  • Random
  • Liar

• I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • People

• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Sage

• Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Great