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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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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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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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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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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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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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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The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
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Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
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I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.
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In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
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It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
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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.
