P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

Jim James

TimeVacationLosingMeFeelGo

I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

Jerry Lewis

WorkPeopleEnergyStrongPrideYou

Cooking, you can keep. I've not the slightest interest in it.

Maxine Peake

CookingYouInterestKeepSlightest

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

Sonam Kapoor

PersonalityI AmPeopleMeLoseGo

The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!

Shiv Nadar

GovernmentWorldIndiaSaidWill

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

Ruth Rendell

SoulPeopleMeThinkDarkCheerful

The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

Joshua Foer

BestMemoryWorldCardsEuropeMark

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Dorothy Dunnett

LifeGameDesignYouKnowChess

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

Bob Goff

PresentTryingEfficient

There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

PowerHateExperienceDifferenceAct

I wish I could be Peter Falk.

Ryan Gosling

WishI WishPeterCould

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Marilyn Ferguson

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