P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I can always go back to education.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.
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If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down here.
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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
