P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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There were a lot of smiles on a lot of faces today.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.