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 surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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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 always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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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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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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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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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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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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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
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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.
