P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Future

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
  • History

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Hand
  • Looking

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Know
  • Promise
  • Start

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.

  

  John Kasich
  • World
  • America
  • Rest

• The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Work
  • Facts

• In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. (p. 94)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Reading

• I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Kids

• China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Trying
  • America
  • Democracy