P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.
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I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.
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Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.
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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
