P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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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 United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
