P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
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If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
