P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
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Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
