P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
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I passionately support Hillary Clinton for president because she has devoted her life to public service and has been willing to learn and change along the way by listening to the people she serves.
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Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.
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More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.
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People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
