P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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You should hear me on my own. It’s horrendous. I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.’
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I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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We think that we know people from this constellation of points: 'I know that story. I know that girl. I've heard that story a thousand times.' But actually, you never know that story.
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I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
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Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.
