P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.
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No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
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I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.
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For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.
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Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
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If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.
