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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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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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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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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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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Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
