P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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I've never been a size 0.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
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If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.
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When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
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We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
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Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
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Industrialization came to England but has since left.
