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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Better America Anything Well Could

In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.

Beginning Think Know Rent Where Got

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

Stephen Hopkins

Done Movies Sound Always Freak Been

Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work.

Work Child Ideas Thoughts Building

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?

Health Fitness Care Church Take Care

I've always been a very private person.

Person Always Private Person Been

It's something that can get overwhelming and frustrating, the sexism I experience in my career. It's just obviously a big issue in women's sport, like salaries, media coverage, just general things that you have to cope with in your career.

Lizzie Armitstead

Women Experience Media You Career

Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.

Words Singing Easy Say True Try

Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

Car Experience You Company Contact

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

Fall Rise Matter Industry Going

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

Opportunity Me Chance Hands Run

Travis Scott is definitely a big inspiration. Lil Wayne was a big one. Lil Wayne, 50 Cent. Those were my two, like, big ones growing up. Then I got into Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa phase.

Growing Up Growing Inspiration Big

I love first chances, but unfortunately, first chances don't always work out for everyone, and I'm a perfect example of that.

Work Love Perfect First Always Out

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