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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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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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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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
