P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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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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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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There's somebody out there for everyone.
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I don't like how cruel humans can be.
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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
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I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
