P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
