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P. J. ORourke Quotes - Page 25

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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Home, Woods, Terrible

"PJ O'Rourke - the rightwinger it's OK for lefties to like". Interview with Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

School, Ghetto, Night

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[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school, and they will explain themselves to you. So we got a hold of, like, 50 high-school yearbooks, including my mom's from 1925 or something, and we discovered that they're all the same.

Mom, School, Yearbook

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I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

Funny, Tape, Radio

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.182, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

Funny, Home, Covering

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.

College, People, Hollywood

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Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.

Night, Pie, Littles

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From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

Night, People, Saturday

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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

Zero, Thinking, Obsession

Interview with Colin Powell, www.theatlantic.com. September, 2004.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

Funny, Thinking, Journalism

P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.266, Atlantic Books Ltd

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

Editors, Doe, Causes

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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

Funny, Lying, Kids

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

Funny, Stories, Way

P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

Mean, Drug, Modern

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.236, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

Funny, Art, Humorous

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Government, Needs, Humans

I'm really tired of virtue.

Tired, Virtue

Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .

People, Trying, Awful

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The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

Funny, Soccer, Baby

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

Editors, Careers, Magazines

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In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

Animal, House, Shots

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Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

Health, Likes, Insurance Companies

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

Girl, Jobs, Fun

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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Government, Ideas, Doe

As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

Jealous, Mean, Thinking

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