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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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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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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When you haven’t been in the world long, it’s hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don’t even feel the need to.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.
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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
