American - Comedian | November 14, 1947 -
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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I'm a political conservative.
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