P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
  • Results

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Failure
  • Impossible

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Never
  • Child
  • Angry

• Science is about unravelling nature.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Nature
  • Science
  • About

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Things
  • While

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • High
  • Body
  • Diet

• No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Time
  • America
  • Lost

• I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Everyday

• If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they'll accomplish a lot, and they'll enjoy their work.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Work

• The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Job
  • Friends