P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!
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The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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No religion is higher than humanity.
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
