P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found ... what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.
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Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found ... what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.
