P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
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The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.
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On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.
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And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.
