American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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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.
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If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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