P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
