P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Live, and be happy, and make others so.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
