P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.
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And then who comes along to save the day? A couple of tool-belt wearing, golf-loving, Dinah Shore weekend lesbians sent from heaven.
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...golf appeals to the idiot in us, and the child. … Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.
