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Been Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
- I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction…
- If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many…
- Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,…
- Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to…
- Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
- The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like…
- I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.
- I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us…
- Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
- In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.…
- 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…
- As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks…
- Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing…
- Space has always been confusing to politics.
- Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
- For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the…
- The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
- I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant…
- Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour