P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I was an expert horseman.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.
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Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
