P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
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Tears are not arguments.
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I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to.
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Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.
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'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
