P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

Jim Courier

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It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

John Byrne

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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

John Millington Synge

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When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and when I began anchoring, I had short, stubbly pieces of hair. And trying to report in San Francisco with fog meant my hair swelled.

Soledad O'Brien

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I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

Robin Sloan

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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

Josh Radnor

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Who am I to say CM Punk is a joke?

Donald Cerrone

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I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

Donald Sinden

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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

Chrissie Hynde

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I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

Colin Wilson

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Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

William S. Burroughs

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