P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

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• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
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• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  

  Zach Braff
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• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
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• Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

  

  Karan Johar
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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

  

  Caity Lotz
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• I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
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• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
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• We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I already am a product.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Country

• That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

  

  Kristin Hersh
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• You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty angry at them.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
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• Today, I will have to tell my children, along with all the children of Palestinian Arab towns in the country, that the state has declared that it does not want us here. ... It has passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • Country
  • Children
  • Today

• There's no such thing as being too Southern.

  

  Lewis Grizzard

• I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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