P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.P. J. O'Rourke
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes -
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.
Zola Jesus -
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Jacob Bronowski -
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.
Karl Rove -
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.
Adam Davidson -
This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. Doctorow -
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.
Irwin Thomas -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi -
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.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
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.
Vijender Singh -
Speed can't always get you wickets.
Kapil Dev
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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.
Maimonides -
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.
Garth Brooks -
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
Raghuram Rajan -
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. Joshi -
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
Wayne Dyer -
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco
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I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States, but I think that has a lot more to do with my love of world records and reference books than a love of serving my country.
Elizabeth McCracken -
For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence - it was more expedient and comforting.
Paul Bowles -
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.
Barack Obama -
I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.
Diego Klattenhoff -
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke