P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.
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I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.
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On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.
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The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.