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Need Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can…
- If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is…
- You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And…
- Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
- Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
- Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him…
- We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
- 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…
- There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey