P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.
