P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
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If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
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If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.