P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Writers are so important.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how.
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
