P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.
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There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Melbourne, and even in the Philippines, zero waste is on the agenda. I think what's particularly inspiring is when communities don't wait to be told what to do but just go ahead and do it.
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Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?
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Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
