P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Hate
  • Listen

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Honor

• I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Same

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Google never knew how successful key words would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Words
  • Successful
  • Key

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Forward

• I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Light
  • Baby
  • Mood

• I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Alone
  • Feel

• Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Up
  • Power
  • Fear

• Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Earth

• I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Good
  • Done
  • Bad

• As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Work
  • Important
  • Mind

• When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • France
  • Japan