P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
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Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'
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I want a society free of human trafficking.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
