P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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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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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.
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With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
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The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.
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The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
