P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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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.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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Nothing is ours except time.
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Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
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The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
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Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
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I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
