P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
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It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.
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Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.
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...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
