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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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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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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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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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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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
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I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things. It's just for the most part, when I'm working, I don't feel like I have the choice. I have to bring my A-game.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
