P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I don't like controversy.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
