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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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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Donald Trump, you already know. We can't have that guy in office.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
