P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
G-Eazy
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vance Havner
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Edsger Dijkstra
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
Vera Wang
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
Salmon P. Chase
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
Tadashi Yanai
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When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
Felicity Kendal
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather
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Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, 'Hey, let's just all get together and help each other be brilliant.'
Marie Osmond
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I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.
Erskine Bowles
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke
