P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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I'm totally a geek.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
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Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
