P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

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• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Act
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• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
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• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
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• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
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• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
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• Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Real
  • Man
  • City

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
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• If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • You
  • Food
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• When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Old
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• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
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• Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

  

  Osman Rashid
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• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
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• I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Reality
  • Lost
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• Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
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• My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen. And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.

  

  Alexander Rybak
  • Dream
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• It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • America
  • Parent