P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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I don't know what love means.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
