P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.
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They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do.
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Don't make jokes about food.
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We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to destroy what makes the Internet special.
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We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.
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There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
