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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Innovation Exercise Something Most

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

Good Live Writing Moral Will Places

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Great Me Speak You Difference Task

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Michael Jackson

World Loved You Knowing Everything

Whether you want to exercise more often, or you're hoping to become debt-free, real change happens in stages. Slow and steady progress is great - as long as you're taking steps in the right direction.

Change Great Progress Direction Slow

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

Ana Beatriz Barros

Back Go Want Tomato Brazil Couch

Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it.

Experience Working Different Just

I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.

House I Can Place Go Want Write

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.

Steven Van Zandt

Work You Look Want Pretty Obvious

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Moment Luck Situation Possible Mean

America is inundated with polls. We need a term for being swamped with polls. I would say 'poll-arized,' but that's already in use to describe our political divisions.

Political America Say Need Being

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They're all women.

Christine Lagarde

Good Women Best Men World Group

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

Attention You Want Need Order Roles

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