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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Evil Organization Powerful Sometimes

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

Time Drunk Party Desire More Out

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

Satisfaction More Being Show Get

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Time Unity Long Long Time Two Sign

For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.

Creative Me Process Budget Right

I know how I like my food. I like it spicy, salty, sticky, crunchy, juicy, oozy - basically any dish you know and love, jacked up to a bordering-on-socially-unacceptable amount of flavor.

Love Food You Know Spicy Salty

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

William John Wills

Clothes Never Everyone Quantity Out

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Children Development Return Higher

I look forward to working with Ken Olin, whose work as an actor and director I have always admired.

Work Forward Look Actor Director

No one has the right to make where you go or what you do uncomfortable.

Uncomfortable You Go Right Where

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Food World More Hungry Something

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Richard Dawkins

Good Doctor Medicine Think You Just

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Angry People Believing Some People

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