P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I get homesick.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
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I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!
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'Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.'
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My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: 'The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.'
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To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
