P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
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When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Moral consideration of the utmost importance for us: we must respect individual differences, yet we must coordinate, work together, and act as one.
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I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
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It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.
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I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.
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I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
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In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
