P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
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If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
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I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.
