P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
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And that's where our conversation went from there, than God, both of us laughing our butts off at the thought of a hoops game between two teams on intravenous fluids. Which makes absolutely no sense at all; I know that. But that's why it cheered me up, because it was so absolutely stupid. It cheered me up more than I'd ever thought I'd be cheered up again.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
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Coach wanted me to run the pick and roll and get to the basket.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
