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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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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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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History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
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If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
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Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.
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Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.
