P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
One thing that's certain about going outdoors: When you come back inside, you'll be scratching.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
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I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
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Vengeance has no foresight.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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One thing that's certain about going outdoors: When you come back inside, you'll be scratching.
