P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Man
  • You
  • Hand

• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
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• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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  • Look
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• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writing
  • Story
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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
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• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guitar
  • Times
  • Bass

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
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• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• But the incredible thing for me in this moment was to see both these masks, of one and the same Being, melt inseparably into each other. Because here for the first time an agonising conflict resolved itself, which I, great-grandson of an idealistic, grandson of a romantic, and son of a materialistic race, had hitherto regarded as irreconcilable. It didn’t exactly happen that an Either-Or metamorphosed into an As-Well-As. No, the real is just as fantastical as the fantastical is real. That was the wonderful thing which delighted us about the doubled images we observed through the stereoscope as children: In the same moment in which they melted together into a single picture, the new dimension of depth burst out from them.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Children
  • Real
  • Being

• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Going

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Law

• Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Man
  • Moral
  • Wealth