P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
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If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
