P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?
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Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American people, or whether extremist doctrines, the manipulation of the truth, will define America's role in the world. At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul.
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I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.
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I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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There's men and women out there protecting and serving, doing it the right way, that aren't talked about.
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For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
