"I grew up going to public school, and……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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More Classes Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
— Javier Bardem
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You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion…
— Robert Bork
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The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking…
— Eli Broad
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I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is…
— Octavia Butler
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