P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

P. J. O'Rourke

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AccountingTaxJailAprilPayKeep

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

Jo Brand

PeopleMeBelieveThinkWhoLike

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

John Blair

FoolCapitalismEnoughSeriousWill

When someone's kind of a braggart to the bully... it makes me on edge just because I live that, and I don't think that's a model we want for our kids in this country.

John Hickenlooper

LiveMeThinkSomeoneCountryEdge

Game creators aren't necessarily all sitting around twirling their nefarious-looking mustaches while consciously trying to figure out how to best misrepresent women as part of some grand conspiracy. Most probably just haven't given much thought to the underlying messages their games are sending.

Anita Sarkeesian

WomenBestGameThoughtTryingOut

My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.

Stephen Paulus

MusicContrastUsedBasedPlenty

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

Ronald Harwood

ClimbUpHangJustEasierThan

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Mason Cooley

EasyProcrastinationHard ThingsHard

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

Liza Minnelli

I AmPeopleJewelryThinkDiamonds

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Johnny Rivers

BluesSeeGotPlayersIncredible

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

Dennis Banks

TimeWordsPeopleYoungFirst Time

I've had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, 'Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.' It's the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn't do it.

Dawn Richard

PeopleTearsDawnDoingYouBad

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

Princess Margaret

SisterGrowing UpGrowingSheOut

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