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 hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.
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It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
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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.
