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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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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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've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
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At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
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I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
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Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
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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.
