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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I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.
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The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.
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I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.
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I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
