P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

Joanna Trollope

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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

John Battelle

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I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

Andrzej Wajda

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Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.

John Hillcoat

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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.

Amy Cuddy

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I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

Stan Kroenke

TeamDreamAlwaysOwnNBASomeday

For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business.

Rob Lowe

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My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

David Steinberg

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If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

Christa McAuliffe

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There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.

Chris Pavone

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Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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