P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They're thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, 'We're 20 pages in, something better blow up,' we're in trouble.
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
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Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.
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I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
