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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Car Power Money Government Giving

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

School Graduate School Working Been

If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.

John T. Chambers

You India Done Yes Answer Would

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

Roberto Clemente

Want Remembered Give Who Gave Had

'Twilight' is very different to the 'Vampire Academy,' completely.

Dominic Sherwood

Vampire Twilight Different Very

I didn't have drama in high school. So when I graduated high school and started at Wayne State in Detroit, I told my parents I was going to major in theater. And they were like, 'OK. Why? You've never done it.' But, it was just what I wanted, and they came to see my very first show and, from then, completely supported me.

Deborah Joy Winans

School Parents Me High School You

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Education Knowledge Children Value

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

Reality You Back Career Person Will

'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

People Me Song Always Radio Big

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Technology Beautiful Book Language

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

Believe You Guns Stick Your

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

Rain Desert You Place See Little

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

Lesley Manville

Music Path Talent Voice True Singer

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