P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'
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In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.
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Michael Jordan on his worst day is ten times better than Kobe Bryant on his best day.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
