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 try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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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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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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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.
