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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I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.
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She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.
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If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
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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.
