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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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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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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I was on the cover of French 'Grazia,' which was amazing. It was all over Paris!
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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.