P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
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I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Hopefully, something starts working out so we can get Patrick some place that he would like. I don't have a time frame on it. We don't feel pressure or anything.
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It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
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I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
