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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I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.
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Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
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You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug
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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.
