P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.
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I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.
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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
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Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
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The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."