P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
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For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
