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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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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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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The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.
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I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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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.
