P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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I just write mechanical things.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.
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Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.
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I hate having to read the manual.
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Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
