P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Support
  • Decisions

• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Last

• Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Girlfriend

• The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Love
  • American
  • Fight

• We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Turn

• I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Look
  • Same

• I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Want
  • You

• One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Money
  • Want
  • Nothing

• I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Want
  • Team
  • Soccer

• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Want
  • Care

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Want
  • Best
  • Studying

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Food
  • Movies

• You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.

  

  Leon Spinks
  • Heart

• I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Live
  • Power
  • Free

• The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Want
  • Political