P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate - it is the sensation of its own realization. a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
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A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.
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The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain- Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
