P. J. O'Rourke Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

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I'm a rather decisive type.

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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

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I'm a political conservative.

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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

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Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

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Never fight an inanimate object.

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

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