P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

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• I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

  

  Inara George
  • Up
  • Community
  • Mountains

• Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Team
  • Working

• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Country
  • Light
  • Religion

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Like
  • Hurts
  • Botox

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • True
  • Health

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Years
  • Lot
  • Squash

• Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Fierce
  • Apple
  • Google

• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reflect

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Me
  • Talk
  • Conspiracy

• Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • American
  • Style
  • Creative

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Challenges
  • Dumb

• So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.

  

  Joel Schumacher
  • Great
  • Food
  • Light

• I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

  

  James Geary
  • Believe
  • Free

• I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

  

  David Collenette
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Function

• When you think positive, good things happen.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Good
  • Positive

• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • American
  • Running