P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.