P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
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But in this world every thing has its evil ; the dust is on the wheels of the conqueror's chariot-the silken-wrought tapestry covers the mouldering wall;
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When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
