P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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Baltimore has proven themselves on the football field. We can't take that away.
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All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
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I would have been happy being in a wedding band.
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
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One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
