P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.
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Climate change - we can debate that until the cows come home, for lack of a better way of stating that. The bottom line is, I do not believe that man is contributing to that factor.
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I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.
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The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
