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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Financial Same Disconnect Example

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Joaquin Phoenix

Me Buildings Acting Off Somebody

If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.

Jocko Willink

Life Wake Up Believe Negative You

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Johannes Stark

Mind Question Ancient Composition

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

John Hawkes

People You Move On Know Said Kind

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Angelina Jolie

Mother Heart Me Country Will Become

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

Steve Rushin

Face You Circus Paint Clown Own

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

Mitchell Baker

Powerful Seen Web Most Most Powerful

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.

Joshua Morrow

Good Performance Believe Color Know

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

Christine Pelosi

Home Equality Building Forward Here

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.

Aretha Franklin

New York Church Environment Village

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

Giving Poor Become Ever

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

History Ideas Better Long Bad Run