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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Wrong Even Jimmy Carter Jimmy

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

Age Men War Research Young Group

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Spiritual Roots Never Spotlight Just

Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

Robert Whittaker

Food Eating Excuses Fat Clean High

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

Day Job Effort Me Believe Why

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Michelle Bachelet

Women Wisdom Health Food Peace

It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

Space Better Place Understand Mean

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Mouth Find Know Africa First Always

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

Jonathan LaPaglia

Love Performance Thought American

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

Beer Die Chair Big Going Performing

The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.

World Partner Name Details Without

There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.

Progress Pain Transition Stop Never

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney J. Harris

Life I Am Life Is Hard Ask Hard Am

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