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I'll pick I'm kidding anytime over I'm lying.

I'll pick "I'm kidding" anytime over "I'm lying."

P. J. O'Rourke
Lying, Picks
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A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

P. J. O'Rourke
Locomotives
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

P. J. O'Rourke
Morning, School, Kids
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I am a great admirer of women.

P. J. O'Rourke
Admirer
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

P. J. O'Rourke
Renewable Resources, Hubris, Resources
Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 23, 2009.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

P. J. O'Rourke
Crazy, People, Information

Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

P. J. O'Rourke
Keys, Bolivia, World
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I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!

P. J. O'Rourke
Dog, Children, Kids
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

P. J. O'Rourke
Engagement

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

P. J. O'Rourke
Computer, Used, Ends

[Michael] Moore doesn't really use his sense of humor that much.

P. J. O'Rourke
Use, Sense Of Humor
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

P. J. O'Rourke
Thinking, Lemmings, Migration
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.

P. J. O'Rourke
Sports, Mad, Way
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I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.

P. J. O'Rourke
Interesting, Important, Trying
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

P. J. O'Rourke
America, Comedy, Wells

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

P. J. O'Rourke
Sports, Fishing, Bait
P. J. O'Rourke (1995). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P. J. O'Rourke”, p.210, Atlantic Monthly Press

Never fight an inanimate object.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Life, Witty
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.189, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Pregnancy, Young Parents
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.

P. J. O'Rourke
United States, Dollars, World

I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.

P. J. O'Rourke
Country, Years, America

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

P. J. O'Rourke
War, America, Lebanese

The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free.

P. J. O'Rourke
People, Safe, Passionate

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

P. J. O'Rourke
Wings, Political, Als
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On Michael Moore 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
Block, Home, Tv Shows
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The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

P. J. O'Rourke
Self, Shields, Type
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