P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
