P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
