P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?
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I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
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Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
