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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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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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out.
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What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
