P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

P. J. O'Rourke

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WomenPurposeYourselfEnjoyYou

I really never watched myself on TV.

Jim Nabors

MyselfNeverTVWatchedReally

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

Joan Collins

BrainRememberYouLosePhoneYour

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

Steve Ballmer

TimeMoneyHardPointMakeSome

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

Sue Monk Kidd

RacismRememberSummerNeverRacial

When you become a Christian, all of a sudden you start to live on this rapture mentality, like tomorrow the world's going to end. You live in that frenzy. We come from the streets, so the mentality was like, 'Yo, dude, what's up? You're not going to tell me I'm not down with God. What's up!'

Sonny Sandoval

LiveGodTomorrowMeWorldStart

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

Stevie Jackson

GuitarPlayerBelleGuitar Player

It is my dream that Chinese medicine will help us conquer life-threatening diseases worldwide and that people across the globe will enjoy its benefits for health promotion.

Tu Youyou

HealthPeopleMedicineConquerHelp

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.

Martine Syms

ExperienceFeelWebsiteRelationships

The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.

Mike Huckabee

PowerDanceGovernmentPolitical

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

Jose Mujica

WorkPeopleWantLifestylePoorTry

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Jose Saramago

SeaSciencePoetrySpaceThinkLike

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

Joseph Brodsky

StopCitizenWillPoetBeingOnce

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