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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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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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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I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
