P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)

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• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
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• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

  

  Samuel Alito
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• If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  

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• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

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• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

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• For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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• Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός,ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατοςκαὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον,τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον

  

  Epicurus

• I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
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• 'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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