P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
Quotes to Explore
-
When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
-
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
-
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
-
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
-
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
-
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
-
As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
-
The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
-
I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
-
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
-
I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
-
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
-
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
-
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
-
I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
-
Time is valuable; people are busy.
-
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
-
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
-
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
-
I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
-
New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.
-
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
