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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The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of men's social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. Rather we must choose our conception of justice fully recognizing that this is not and cannot be the case.
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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Jocelyn Knight in Wessex County Court will be like seeing Katharine Hepburn in weekly rep.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
