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Could Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
- Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
- 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?'…
- Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no…
- The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
- The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits…
- Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
- If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
- It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic…
More Could Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold