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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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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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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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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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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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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Every theory is true in some discipline. The beauty of this is that it carries its own confirmation.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
