P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I get depressed at airports.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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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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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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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 just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.
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...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been cheerleaders for the government...They were depriving the free world of its most valuable weapon in condemning and exposing the worst human scourge since Nazism: the targeting and murder of civilians to achieve political and religious ends.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
