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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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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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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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.
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I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
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I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.
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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.