P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

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• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

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• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

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• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

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• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

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• In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

  

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• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

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• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

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• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

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• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  

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• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

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• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

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• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

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• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
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• It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

  

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• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

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• When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

  

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• I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

  

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• I suppose I've been very fortunate in terms of my longevity and my voice and the way it has held up over the years. I hope to be able to keep on doing what I'm doing until I can't do it anymore.

  

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• On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.

  

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• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

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• Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, 'I'm a Liar,' right there on the dust jacket.

  

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• I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy.

  

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• -'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Ties