P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

P. J. O'Rourke

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Subconcussive injuries are brain injuries on top of unrecovered brain injuries.

Ann McKee

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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Jeffrey Kluger

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People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

Jeff Foxworthy

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Patience has never been my strong suit.

Michael Chiklis

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I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

Sinead Burke

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I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

Tom Waits

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I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

Rob Delaney

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I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

Luke Evans

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So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

Corey Taylor

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I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

Sydney Pollack

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We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.

Tyler Joseph

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