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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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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.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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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.

  

  Patrick Kane
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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.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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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.

  

  Earl Monroe
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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.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
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• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
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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.

  

  Maceo Parker
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• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
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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.'

  

  W. H. Davies
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• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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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.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
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• I will tell you flat out that I continually find Yelp and products like it to be increasingly worthless to me as a consumer.

  

  Andrew Zimmern

• I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

  

  Mark Bradford
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• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

  

  Chauncey Wright
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• If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

  

  P. D. James
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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.

  

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