P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
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Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
