P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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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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Themes around education and learning run through my work.
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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
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I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
