P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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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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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.
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I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.
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We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
