P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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Tears are not arguments.
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When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
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Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.
