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P. J. O'Rourke

"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."

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"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."

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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

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"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."

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"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom."

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"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay."

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"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."

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"They were all famous and fantastic fellows."

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"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"

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"None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone."

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"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."

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"Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises."

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"People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans."
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"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
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"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."
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