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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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 follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I'm very grateful that I've had the opportunities I've had.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.
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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
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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.
