P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

P. J. O'Rourke

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The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

John Lydon

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With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Robert Gottlieb

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The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it's pretty ludicrous.

Andy Kindler

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

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I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

Rose Namajunas

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I don't recall getting a first guitar.

Ronnie Montrose

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I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

Mary Steenburgen

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We've done amazing things for the state. Some of them have had a national impact, but I'm going to be ready for some new challenges, and so I'm not going to seek a fifth term as attorney general.

Lisa Madigan

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I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

Jonathan Galassi

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When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

Diane Ackerman

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I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

Chris Evans

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