P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.
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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.
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It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.
