P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
