P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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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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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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The blues is life itself.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
