P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Satire doesn't effect change.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • Real
  • Family

• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Service

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Done
  • Vision

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Important
  • Done
  • Service

• Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Running
  • Show
  • Agenda

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Live
  • Song

• When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Conscious

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Pink
  • Favourite
  • Colour

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire