P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
