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 wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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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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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
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It's really important to be free and be open and honest about the things you want to do. Just 'cause you want to make a solo record or another record with another band, it doesn't have to be an insult or a slight to the band you've been with for a long time.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
