P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I'm totally a geek.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
