P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
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Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
