P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
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It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.
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Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning.
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When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.
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You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
