P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
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The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
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So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
