P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Everybody is a teenage idol.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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Not everybody's gonna get your vision.
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Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.
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We want everybody to be bossed up.
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A thief believes everybody steals.
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Evil changes everybody!
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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
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It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
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My wardrobe falls into two camps most of the time: either very monochromatic and tailored or really vintagey, with '30s and '40s-style long floral dresses. I don't buy that much, so every time I invest in something new, it has to elevate what I have hanging in my closet.
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I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.
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A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
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It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
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When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.
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The Big 4 tour was really great.
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No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
