P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
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Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.
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There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million to make the film." There was no way to make the thing for $2 million, so I made it for $5 million. And then, it turned out there was no way to make the thing for $5 million. That's when it got weird.
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Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
