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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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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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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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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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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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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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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I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.
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Common sense is the best prophet.
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Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.
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He's scattered, his sentences trail off, he sighs frequently, as though he's so intelligent he's always frustrated by the formulaic nature of speech (each sentence a ride you can't get off once the attendant buckles you into the car).
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Societal good comes first for me.
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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.
