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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Fun Hunting High Dairy Cows Like

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

Jillian Michaels

Gay Know Because Homophobic

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

Trust Free Believe Better Plans

It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.

View Survival Secrets Matter Line

Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so.

City Energy Enough Year Seriously

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

Jean-Luc Godard

You Make Movie Makes

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

College You Place Schedule Whatever

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

Sigourney Weaver

Girl New York City World Think You

I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures.

Love Finding You Acting Hidden Dirt

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Value Sorry Seeing Selfishness Act

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

People Think React Minds Always Our

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

Love Food Thought You Mouth Down

I'm not perfect - I'm human, and I can make mistakes - but I'm always going to fight clean; I'm always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.

Good Mistakes Fight Not Perfect Go

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