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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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
