P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
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The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
