P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

P. J. O'Rourke

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The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

Robert M. Gates

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When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money.

Robert Herjavec

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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Andy Rooney

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Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place.

Michael Connelly

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Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

John Shirley

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My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.

Amanda Seales

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I think people have to read more and learn more about what's going on internationally.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.

Tom Reiss

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Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

Rupert Murdoch

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My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. Being a parent, for me, means creating what I didn't have. I want my children to feel love and be able to express it.

Mike Farrell

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I am a family man who has children, who is a good person, who cares about women's rights and my kids' rights and education, and I'm not a leftist elitist. I live a very normal life.

Michael Kelly

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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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