P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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Everyone now, they look back and they're like, 'What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?' And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please...
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
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I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
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I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
