P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.