P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • World
  • Travel

• Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Illiterate

• You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Night
  • City

• I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Volunteer

• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
  • Films
  • Lot

• Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Listen
  • Religions
  • Lot

• Travel teaches as much as books.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Travel
  • Books
  • Teaches

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Working
  • Speaking
  • CIA

• I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • High
  • Man

• There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Lot

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• I spend a lot of time with my characters.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Lot
  • Spend

• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Travel
  • Move
  • Lot

• I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Played
  • Lot
  • Mardy Fish

• When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Guy
  • Learning
  • Bird

• My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Success
  • Like
  • Couple

• The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sense
  • Conquest
  • Conquerors

• I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Time

• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Travel
  • Lot
  • Speaking