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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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .
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I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
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Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
