P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.
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I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
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The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
