P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.
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If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
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The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.
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It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.
