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 are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'
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We need to support the media by subscribing to newspapers and magazines and supporting their advertisers to stay in business. And we need to be less greedy and allow journalists to take the time to pull the story together.
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Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
