P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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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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I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.
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We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
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