P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I find the business world hard.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Everything I say is true.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.
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Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
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If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.
