P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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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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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
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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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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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My ignorance is widespread.
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
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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.
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Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
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The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.
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The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.