P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
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I didn't add any new elements to the modern synthetic theory to speak of. I just modified things so that people could understand how things were in the plant world
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The blood has run long enough. We have to care about the little people. It is not adults that own this world — it is the children.
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The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
