P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

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• 'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • High
  • Plateau

• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Think
  • Want
  • Free

• I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Attracted

• 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.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Men
  • Play

• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Black
  • Feeling

• We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Live
  • Sports
  • English

• I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Heart
  • May

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Giving
  • Party
  • Vision

• I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Future
  • House

• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Father

• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Pretty
  • Look
  • Young

• I am not a madman or a nut.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Madman
  • Nut

• I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Father
  • Looks
  • Speech

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • People
  • Really
  • Making

• I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Kind
  • Really

• A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Really
  • Much
  • Humorist