P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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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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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Where do those golden rainbows end? Why is this song so sad? Dreaming the dreams I've dreamed my friend Loving the love I love To love is just a word I've heard when things are being said Stories my poor head has told me cannot stand the cold And in between what might have been and what has come to pass A misbegotten guess alas and bits of broken glass…
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
