"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.“


-P. J. O'Rourke

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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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