P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
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I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.
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Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.
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Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.
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Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.