P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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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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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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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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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.
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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
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America is a meritocracy.
