P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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If there is some determinate succession of defined whole real numbers, among which there exists no greatest, on the basis of this second principle of generation a new number is obtained which is regarded as the limit of those numbers, i.e. is defined as the next greater number than all of them.
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I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
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The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
