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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The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
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The renaissance is a rebirth of man. Man must remember that everything that exists in society was created by men who preceded him , and it was created for the progress and happiness of mankind. Confronted with social institutions or political organisations which are antagonistic to the progress and happiness of mankind, which bind men instead of liberation them, man must feel the necessity of breaking those bonds, so that he can make further progress. But in order to have the confident that he can do that man must remember himself. That is the rebirth of man as man. Men have been either slaves of gods or the servants of kings or of best devotees of some religion. But man must be man for himself, if he wants to work his own salvation.
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
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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.
