P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

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• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
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• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

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• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

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• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

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• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

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• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

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• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
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• I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

  

  Gal Gadot
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• By and large my relations with the US were good.

  

  Hans Blix
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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
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• It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
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• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  

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• We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

  

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• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

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• I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

  

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• When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

  

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• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

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• It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

  

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• I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.

  

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  

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• I think I'm a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job - the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings.

  

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• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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