P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
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I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
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In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
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Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
