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.
Calvin Coolidge -
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.
Wendy Kopp -
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.
Ian Millar -
I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
Katee Sackhoff -
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.
Rachel True -
It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
Adam Brown
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I am the hero of Africa.
Idi Amin -
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.
Rachel Johnson -
Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
Naomi Klein -
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.
Narada Michael Walden -
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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
Olivia Wilde -
I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
Abel Ferrara -
Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?
Jack Benny -
'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.'
T. B. Joshua -
'So it’s false.''What isn’t?''Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.'
Iain Banks
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I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time.
Andy Rooney -
One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.
Evgeny Morozov -
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
Plato -
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
P. G. Wodehouse