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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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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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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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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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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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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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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When 'Red Tails' came along, all I knew was that they were the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force. I had no idea how deep the story went or about all their amazing achievements. There were a few Tuskegee Airmen on the set to make sure everything was as authentic as possible.
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We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial, - considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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I think I was born into an incredibly fortunate environment.
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I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.
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If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.
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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.
