P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.
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The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
