P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
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If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.
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Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.
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Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
