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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Worth Nothing Will More Pay Less

I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

Joe R. Lansdale

Home Son Fire Wife Writing Early

Without failure there is no achievement.

John C. Maxwell

Failure Achievement Without

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

Attitude Value Fall Empire Sure

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

Business Job Camera Television Go

I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

Looking American Now Band Pretty

I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I hate going to parties and events and would rather sit at home and watch TV. Parties are the place where controversies happen.

Home Hate School I Am College Me

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

Relationship Yourself Happy People

Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

Truth Time People Career Wonder Try

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

Woman Dress Me Australia Asian Up

If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.

Wait Someone Talking You Back Down

Every director I've ever admired has a beard.

Beard Director Every Admired Ever

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

Seth MacFarlane

Nature American Political More Much

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