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Thinking Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse…
- When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.
- [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious…
- Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?
- Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered coporate lawyer - Hillary - in charge of making it cheaper. (This…
- 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…
- Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
- 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…
- Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
- Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on…
- I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon…
- This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
- I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller…
- I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around…
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- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right. — Nishan Panwar