P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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Fashion should be stylish and fun.
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The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
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Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.
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You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
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Freedom is for fun.
