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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beauty Democracy Random Citizen Lead

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

Hands Classic Everything Example He

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

Sympathy Find Touch Faults Virtues

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

Best Energy Voice Guitar Play Want

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

Me Easy Done First Pretty Because

I work really hard. Walk-throughs, I take everything seriously.

Work Seriously Hard Everything Take

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

Time Poetry Me Events Over Head

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

Best Fun Friends Sometimes Terrible

I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

New York Doing Play New Invited

I like to feel the same when I'm on stage and when I'm not.

Feel Same Stage Like

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.

Christy Turlington

Proud Smoking Know Quit Would Very

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

Great Bloom Season Replaced States

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.

Roads Buildings Ghetto Living My Own

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