P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.
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You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.
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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
