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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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.
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The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
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The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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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?
