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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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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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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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.
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Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
