P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • World
  • Real
  • King

• Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Nature
  • Never

• As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• You have to be yourself.

  

  Young Thug
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• When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Story
  • Research
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• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • True
  • Mankind

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
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• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Political
  • Audience
  • Tough

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
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• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• I've lived in New York for a really long time.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• Golf is not easy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Golf
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• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
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• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
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  • Silent

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.

  

  Barbara Hershey
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• I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Help
  • Support
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• You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Stop
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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  

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