P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I am the hero of Africa.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
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To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.
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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?
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'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'
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I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.
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When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein, it's like putting a log on the fire.
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Wars have always started over religion.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
