P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
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I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
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You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
