P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I don't know what love means.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
