P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I don't know what love means.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
