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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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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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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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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For me, drag is not about being a woman - or being anything, specifically.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
