P. J. O'Rourke Quotes - Page 21

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• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

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  War, Ducks, Guarantees

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• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

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  Cities, Perspective, Poverty

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• Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

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  Thinking, Rocks, Volunteer

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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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  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

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  People, Principles, Purpose

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.80, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

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  Mean, People, Wipe

  P.J. O'Rourke (2010). “DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

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  War, Generations, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

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  Running, Believe, Simple

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• People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

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  Jobs, People, Pay

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

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  Self, Skills, Interest

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• Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

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  Funny, Pregnancy, Young Parents

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

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  Children, Divorce, Pawns

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

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  Engagement

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• I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

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  Computer, Used, Ends

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• I'm a rather decisive type.

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  Type

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• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

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  Government, Way, Size

  "PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

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  Math, History, Wells

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• The wise traveler [to Beirut] will pack shirts or blouses with ample breast pockets. Reaching inside a jacket for your passport looks too much like going for the draw and puts armed men out of countinence

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  Wise, Travel, Men

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.22, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

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  Funny, Humor, Loss

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• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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  Love, Family, Patterns

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

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  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

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  War, Thinking, Years

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

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  Funny, Humor, Reform

  "Year in Review". Rolling Stone, December 15, 1988.

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• Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

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  Loss, Hot, Looks

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

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  Food, Lakes, Sea

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