P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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'Listen,' she said. 'I get off in an hour. Sit in the back. I'll see you then.' As though they'd agreed to this a long time ago. That was the sign, he was as yet unused to noticing it but he was learning: that sensation that the future has already happened and is only bringing itself about in staging these present moments.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.
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I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!
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Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.
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My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.
