P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

Joe McNally

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As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

Jessica Williams

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Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Merton Miller

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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.

Russell Smith

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I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Roy Keane

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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Mo Yan

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I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

Dominic Chianese

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I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

Diane S. Sykes

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I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

Demi Lovato

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I have a big cynical side to me.

Peter Dinklage

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People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

Scott Fujita

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When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

Ken Burns

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