P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
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The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.
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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
