P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It's the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.
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In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
