P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
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So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
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I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.
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That, thought Mrs. Fisher, her eyes going steadily line by line down the page and not a word of it getting through into her consciousness, is foolish of friends. It is condemning one to a premature death. One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead—obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life. What she would dislike would be unripening, going back to something green. She would dislike it intensely; and this is what she felt she was on the brink of doing. Naturally it made her very uneasy, and only in constant movement could she find distraction. Increasingly restless and no longer able to confine herself to her battlements, she wandered more and more frequently, and also aimlessly, in and out of the top garden.
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When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
