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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I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.
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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth.
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
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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.
