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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Stupidity College Earnestness Sent

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Music Beautiful Great Reality Artist

Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.

Anger Tough Ignore Point Respond

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Robert Sheckley

Science You Say Science Fiction Out

I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.

Good Time Passionate My Time Than

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.

Child Universe Rules Moral Three

I'm very impatient. I always want more.

Want More Always Impatient Very

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

Cancer Painful Rather Life-Changing

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

Pretty Successful Left Being Mayor

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.

Michael Specter

Change Good Fear Health World Why

I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Back Go She Her Come Hear

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

Time You Build Need Always Before

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Family Health Teacher Vision Medical

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