P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
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Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
