P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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Bullies always have another target.
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.
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There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
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It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
