P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.
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I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.
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Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
