P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Being evil is easy.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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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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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
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Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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What can we do to make the world's children a priority.
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A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.
