P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.
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I played the Holiday Motel on the circle in 1970. I know the Jersey Shore.
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I can't imagine topping this. Really. I can't imagine doing like Little House on the Prairie gone wrong or something. I really think this will be it.
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The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.
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It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.
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How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
