P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I always played to win.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
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I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
