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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'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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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
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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.
