P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'm cranky.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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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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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.
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I don't like firing people. It's not a pleasant thing and it's sad. ... In some cases, it's a terrible, terrible situation for the person who gets fired, how strongly they take it. So it's not something that any rational or sane person can love doing, but it also happens to be a fact of life in business.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
