P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.