P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

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• Quiet is the new loud.

  

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• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

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• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

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• I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.

  

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• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

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• The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

  

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• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

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• Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Night
  • Moving
  • Dark