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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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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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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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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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
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Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.
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There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.
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I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
