"Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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More Archetypal Quotes
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My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
— Jo Brand
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And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can…
— Deepak Chopra
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Brian is an archetypal character, a bit like Don Juan, which is how I play him. He's a blast to…
— Gale Harold
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The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams…
— Carl Jung
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Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend…
— David Foster Wallace
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She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -…
— Marcia Muller
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When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain…
— Rudolf Steiner
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I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.
— Bill Hicks
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die…
— Wendy Doniger
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I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
— Juliana Hatfield
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The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self.…
— Carl Jung
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The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it…
— Steven Forrest
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