P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
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You should think about the world and feel about your heart.
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I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
