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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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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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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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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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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If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.
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I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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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.
