P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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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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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
