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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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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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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To retire is to die.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
