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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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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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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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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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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The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
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If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
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I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
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The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.
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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.
