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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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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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.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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I think Americans are very verbal and Aussies are more circumspect, and that can come across as being clearer. It can also come across as abrupt and cold. Some people find me to be abrupt and cold. That's just my personal style.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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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.
