P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
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I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She's got such history, and she's, like, the first female superhero.
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I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
