P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

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• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

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• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
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• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

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• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

  

  Mae West
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• I am a very selfish person.

  

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• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

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• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
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• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
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• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

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• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

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• The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)

  

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• Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

  

  Jason Mraz
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• Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

  

  Andrew Dominik
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• Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
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• Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
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• Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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