P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I hate competition.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
