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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My wife is absolutely one of my key advisors. She comes from a background that's very different than mine.
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I played Little League. I was a 'pitcher.' But we had a pitching machine, so I was just basically an 'in-infield' shortstop because all I got to do was field bloopers six feet from the plate. I couldn't hit, so that was pretty much my entire job.
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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
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The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...
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When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.
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Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
