P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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This is an industry, it's a business. We exist to make money. We exist to put commercials on the air. The programming that is put on between those commercials is simply the bait we put in the mousetrap. 1
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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
