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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In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
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My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
