P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
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Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
