P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
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We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
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That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
