P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
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Work at a place like Google for awhile: if you do an interview and you say all the right things, no one really cares. But the day you say the wrong sentence, it's attributed to 'Senior Google Executive,' and the stock moves, and everybody hates you.
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A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.
