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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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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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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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Our true character comes out in the way we pray.
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Perspective is not a science but a hope.
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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.
