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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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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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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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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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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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
