P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Writers are so important.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
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To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Over time, we look forward to introducing new advertising experiences and business experiences on Instagram.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
