P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.
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Success is the sum of details.
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Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
