P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
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Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
