P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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Unfortunately, some people go to a restaurant, and they aren't really there to enjoy themselves. They're there because they think they deserve to be there or because they can just afford it.
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If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
