P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
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I have no message.
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And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
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It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
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The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.
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I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.
