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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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
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I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.
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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.
