Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'ROURKEI’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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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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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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