P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. I am continually impressed by how difficult it is for people who have gone through the unspeakable to convey the essence of their experience.
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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
