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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Love Home I Am Doing Wood Carpenter

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren't filming.

JoBeth Williams

Time Us Even Wanted Filming Were

Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.

Life Pain Grow My Life You Complain

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

Stress Salt Important Risk High

I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.

Technology Hate Men Camera You Know

Work like your life depends on it, but remember it doesn't.

Life Work Remember Your Depends

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.

Work Mind Me Think You Way

I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.

People Baby Go Say Movies Never

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.

Jonathan Hickman

Commitment People Me Weird Know Way

Being a parent is very important to me.

Me Parent Important Being Very

As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion.

Finance Opinion Stand Up Face Stand

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

Douglas Trumbull

Fearless Engineering Glass Gears

I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.

Work Age Time Style Chance Think

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