P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
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When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
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I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
