P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
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One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I'm haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make. The kind of world we'd create makes me want to cry sometimes.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
