P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
Taylor Kinney
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.
Salman Rushdie
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
Sam Shepard
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
Aaron Carter
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
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Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument.
Jane McGonigal
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I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.
Vladimir Nabokov
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
Abe Lemons
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I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
Chris Jordan
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The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.
Matt Dillon
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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
P. J. O'Rourke
