P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.
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The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
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I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
