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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Listen Him Agree Rush Therefore

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Jennifer Granholm

Year Debt Company Up Bigger Four

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

Today Alone Simple Lie School Facts

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Art Money Believe Motivation Artists

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Beauty Flying Said Often Lure

I would not swap the World Cup title for any accolade. But I could imagine that quite a few would swap every accolade for a World Cup title.

World Imagine Cup Would World Cup

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Art Creative Tell Being Stops

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

History Tyranny Inevitable Nothing

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

Music Influence Aesthetic Never Big

We know Fury likes to entertain and promote.

Know Fury Likes Promote Entertain

We'll never see national shows with 45 shares again.

Never See Again National Shows

My mind can't always be on fighting.

Demetrious Johnson

Mind Fighting Always

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

Exercise Rules Numbers Authority May

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