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I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.


P. J. O'Rourke

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Rush Limbaugh and all of the Rush Limbaugh wannabes have a very shrill edge. And that's entertainmen...
TOM DASCHLE I don't believe Rush Limbaugh has a racist bone in his body.
MIKE PENCE I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
DAVID BOWIE I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley...
RALPH STANLEY I don't usually have facials.
BARBARA FIALHO I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I...
BEYONCE KNOWLES Russians don't complain, usually.
IAN FRAZIER I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I...
BEYONCE KNOWLES You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
DALE MURPHY I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
AL FRANKEN When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
BILL NYE I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
ZEDD Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.
PAUL WEYRICH I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
MAGDALENA FRACKOWIAK When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
BUTCH TRUCKS Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh's whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incend...
MICHAEL STEELE I usually just leave because they usually play rock and stuff, ... I don't really listen to that st...
ANTHONY JACKSON I usually just leave because they usually play rock and stuff, ... I don't really listen to that stu...
ANTHONY JACKSON I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral valu...
HOWARD DEAN I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
ANNA KENDRICK I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
CALEB LANDRY JONES I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
EVA MENDES There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every...
BILL PARCELLS Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought p...
CAROL ROTH I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.
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CHARLIE CRIST But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working....
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex...
KATY PERRY If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it...
BARBRA STREISAND I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign pol...
TED CRUZ I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids an...
MEGYN KELLY A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a s...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn&#...
JAMES MARSH Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
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RANDY NEWMAN While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what&...
DAVID ANTIN Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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CHADWICK BOSEMAN I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I c...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.
DAVID BENIOFF When he got up, everybody listened. That's where it's at now. Usually with a freshman, we may listen...
CHRIS DAVIS I usually listen to what my friends try and then try it myself but nothing has stuck.
CHRISTINA JOHNSON The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
CATHERINE KEENER I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce ...
ALAN ALDA Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
LARRY DRAKE I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and eas...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a n...
MOLLY IVINS I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don&...
TOM WAITS I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don&...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set th...
EDDIE VAN HALEN People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it...
KATE DICKIE If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly....
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
PATRICK WHITESELL Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revis...
GAIL TSUKIYAMA That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I d...
JIMMY KIMMEL Army life don't agree with me.
EDDIE SLOVIK I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ...
ANDREW LINCOLN I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I&#...
CHRIS ROCK Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don&#...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I ...
SUE MONK KIDD I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for p...
KEIR GILCHRIST The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do wit...
SOPHIE OKONEDO I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching somet...
BILLY BURKE I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people...
NICKI MINAJ In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I d...
AXL ROSE Getting between him and his fans -- I don?t think it?s the P. I think it?s the bodyguards,
JON STEWART Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don...
HENRY WILLIAMSON I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
STEVE YZERMAN I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layo...
MARTHA GRIMES That's a lot more 3-pointers than we usually take.
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DAVID ALAN BASCHE I don't really listen to my old music.
JOHN GRANT There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d...
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AZZEDINE ALAIA I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of word...
ELLA EYRE Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
TAMORA PIERCE I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
VINCE NEIL People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don&...
MICHAEL MOORE I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff...
NOAM CHOMSKY I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
YAEL NAIM I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.
TYLER, THE CREATOR There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio...
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P. J. O'ROURKE Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled...
P. J. O'ROURKE If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, Wo...
P. J. O'ROURKE You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don'...
P. J. O'ROURKE The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim...
P. J. O'ROURKE Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und...
P. J. O'ROURKE The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'ROURKE A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'ROURKE Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the sche...
P. J. O'ROURKE Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKE If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it w...
P. J. O'ROURKE The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them...
P. J. O'ROURKE Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bl...
P. J. O'ROURKE Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway inste...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kids are disorganized.
P. J. O'ROURKE People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers th...
P. J. O'ROURKE Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'ROURKE Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J P DONLEAVY Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'ROURKE Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'ROURKE In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a popu...
P. J. O'ROURKE There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I...
P. J. O'ROURKE The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the Dist...
P. J. O'ROURKE It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with...
P. J. O'ROURKE I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h...
P. J. O'ROURKE Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'ROURKE Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefull...
P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display e...
P. J. O'ROURKE There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-...
P. J. O'ROURKE With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today...
P. J. O'ROURKE When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are le...
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