P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Bengaluru is home for me. Being from Udupi, Karnataka, I have many relatives in Bengaluru. I used to come down for Bangalore Fashion Week. It was a lot of fun, and I had made so many good friends.
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The world is changing very profoundly.
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To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
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I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
