P. J. O'Rourke Quotes - Page 20

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• It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.

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  Fun, Loss, Shoes

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• As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

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  Jealous, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

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  Rights, Done, Politics

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• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

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  Adventure, Government, Goal

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• Commies love concrete.

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  Concrete

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

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  Islands, Littles, Lessons

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• There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

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  Growth, Comedy, Kind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.257, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

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  Editors, Careers, Magazines

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

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  Gun, Chinese, Paper

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm a rather decisive type.

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  Type

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• Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

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  Fun, Alive, Safe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.

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  Car, People, Tools

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

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  Locomotives

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm really tired of virtue.

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  Tired, Virtue

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

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  Despair, Middle East, Do The Best

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• There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

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  Government, Levels, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Satire doesn't effect change.

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  Satire, Effects

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• Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

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  Keys, Bolivia, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

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  Color, Ruffles, Doe

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

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  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

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  Running, Self, People

  "How to interview P.J. O’Rourke on drugs while getting your mind blown and not embarrass yourself". Interview with Mike Riggs, dailycaller.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

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  Nice, Cancer, Cutting

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

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  Eye, Gay, Acceptance

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