P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
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I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity.
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I'm not going to be one of those guys who changes, and all of a sudden I'm shaking hands and kissing babies.
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The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
