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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

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Life Great Long Century Changed His

I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

Skiing Feel You Look Down Jump

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

Jennifer McMahon

Family Child Hair Woods Feathers

Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.

Ride You Place Strange Always Tell

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Original Who Avoid Does Eccentricity

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.

Love People Me Saying Feel Movies

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

Face Look Way Photographer Lit Set

Instagram has become one of my favorite platforms because of its simplicity.

Simplicity Become Instagram Because

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Leisure Workaholic Thing Passes

Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It's the only way to break down your opponents.

Game Key Down Way Watching Break

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

Me World Motivation Interesting Look

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

Good Time Focus Just Because Rock

There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.

Jose Angel Gurria

Women Men Political Trail Reason

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