P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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All words, in every language, are metaphors.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
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I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
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Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.
