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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Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.
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Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
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When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
