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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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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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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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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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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As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
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When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.
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If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.
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When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.
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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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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.
