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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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.
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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.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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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.
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You have to be yourself.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Golf is not easy.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I love simplicity.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.
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The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.
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Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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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.
