P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I miss baseball.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.
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If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
