P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
