P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.
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But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
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In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
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One writes such a story The Lord of the Rings not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
