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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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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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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
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Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
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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?
