P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
