American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Kids are disorganized.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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