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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Politics People Brain Become Turn

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

Jim Elliot

Work Peace Purpose Saying Direction

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

Joe Gilgun

Money People Long Never Anything

I'm a compassionate conservative.

John Engler

Conservative Compassionate

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Robert J. Shiller

Money People Management Saying Beat

If I medically can't make the weight, then I'm not going to force my body to do something that it doesn't want to. I'll gladly go up to '55.

Max Holloway

Body Go Want Up Something Going

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Angelina Jolie

Life Value World My Life Want Much

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

Jeff Healey

Business Music Connected Way Always

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

Amity Gaige

Vision More California Somewhere Her

I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.

Tom Riley

Experience Me Feel Actor Become Far

People have asked me, 'Is it about Apple or is it about Jobs?' and I say it's about how a man becomes his company and the company becomes the man. That has only happened a few times, like it happened with Ford, I think, they became inextricably linked together.

Joshua Michael Stern

Together Man People Me Think Apple

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.

Clint Smith

Beauty Best Competition World Cheer

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

Arnaud Desplechin

Work Hard Work Voice Find Hard Own