P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
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A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.
