P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.
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Always let losers have their words.
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
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Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
