P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.
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These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.
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I'm the first person in my family to play poker.
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Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.
