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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Speed Quantity Like Sins Excessive

I don't like to be involved in front-office stuff.

Involved Like Stuff

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Great Laughter Heaven Know Would

I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.

Business Age Children People You Up

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

Business Music Think Learn You

I'm not the fastest player, but you can't really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can't play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I'll back them down. I'm a good post player.

Chauncey Billups

Good Me Enough You Down Play

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

Girl Alone Myself Person Radio Used

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

Doing Intention Imagine Started

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

William Petersen

Challenge Doctor Lawyer Learn Play

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Life Basketball My Life Meaning Been

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

People Giving Be True Television

There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Ride New York Bicycle New Try See

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Work Good Friend Myself Best Think

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