P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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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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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.
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I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
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You are going to have bad days and have good days.
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Ted Baillieu certainly has served the state very well. He has served the Liberal party extraordinarily well, and he can be very, very proud of his achievements. I am honoured and proud to say that he is not just a colleague, he is a great friend.
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[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.
