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 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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The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
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There have been moments when I also wasn’t able to attach as much importance to football as it seemed to me I should.
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He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
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I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
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As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.
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Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
