P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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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.
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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.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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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.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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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.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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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.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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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.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
