P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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I'm a real people-pleaser.
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When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for a lot of my Israeli characters, what it was like to inherit such a complicated and symbiotic relationship to America and to feel how tangled that is, and it's nothing that they chose to do themselves.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
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I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?
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Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
