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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Women just love to shop.
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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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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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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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Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.
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Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
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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?
