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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In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
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The Americans are very effective and action-driven.
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If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.
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The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.
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Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.