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Writing is agony. I hate it.

~P. J. O'Rourke

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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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Kids are disorganized.

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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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