"The whole melodrama of the Middle East would……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots."
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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 Amnesia Quotes
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one of 70 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves…
— Lynda Barry
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
— Luis Bunuel
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate…
— Pat Summitt
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The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask…
— Sparky Anderson
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
— John Guare
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to…
— Seal
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To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia
— Unknown Author
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Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
— Robert Smithson
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
— Jack Horner
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and…
— Tom Hayden
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