P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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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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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I always have to be writing.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
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I thought I was funny as a kid.
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I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
