P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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The individual Siemens businesses must be able to keep up with the specialists in the industry and be at least as good as their strongest competitors.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
