P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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One with the law is a majority.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
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Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.
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I sometimes self-edit when it comes to auditions and go, 'They're not going to cast me, so I'm not going to do it.'
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
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History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
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When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
