P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.
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It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
