Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

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• That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service
  • Own
  • Which

• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Food
  • Language
  • Dead

• The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Time
  • History
  • Education

• All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Life
  • Stupid
  • My Life

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Age
  • Man

• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Happy

• You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • You

• The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).

  

  Geoff Dyer

• Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Men
  • Hair

• My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Good

• I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

  

  Anne Hull
  • Life
  • World
  • Religious

• I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Religious
  • Irish