P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
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We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
