P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Go West, young man.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.
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I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.
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If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
