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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Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
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One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.
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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?
