P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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This love is silent.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.
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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
