P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.
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I put myself through college playing pool.
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
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I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
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I don’t think that I want to make any wager if it means dealing with a Church that has grown so corrupt that it makes obedience and submission the price of its saving the life of someone’s child.
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.
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I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.
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The mind perceives … that it is higher than institutions, which are but the woof and web of its thought and will, which it weaves and outgrows, and weaves again.
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I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
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I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.
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Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.
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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.