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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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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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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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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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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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
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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.
