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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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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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 have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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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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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.
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Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
