P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.
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It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
