P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
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Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.
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We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
