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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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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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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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
