P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
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The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.
