P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
Quotes to Explore
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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My health is fine.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
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Only the dead are free of the influence of others.
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'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' (talking about the United States State Department) 2
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In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
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I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.
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You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
