P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
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They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
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Gut health is the key to overall health.
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Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
