P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
