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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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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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption.
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
