P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I really like performing for people.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
