P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.
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I owe my mum a sense of family. She has kept our family together. I have two brothers and a sister, and they all live a stone's throw away from each other in Liverpool.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
