P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I really like performing for people.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I like risky stuff.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I like to argue with the radio.
