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 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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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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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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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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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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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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We must take our friends as they are.
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India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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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.
