P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.
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I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
