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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Training
  • Boxing
  • Ready

• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• 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.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Doubt
  • Become
  • Donkey

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Future
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• History never looks like history when you are living through it.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • History

• I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

  

  Lake Bell
  • American
  • Morning

• One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people.

  

  Howard Duane Allman The Allman Brothers Band
  • People
  • Good
  • Band

• I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Drama

• I remember having to hit a mark and having no idea how to do it, real childlike stuff, because Carnegie Mellon didn't do an extensive job preparing us for film and television. It was very much a theater program. That was my first job. It was cool. I was glad it was.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Real
  • Job
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American