P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.
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This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
