P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.
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If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.
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Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
