P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely 'want' to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire - event enthusiasm - for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.
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I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
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Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast.
