P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Go West, young man.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.
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Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.
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The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
