P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Life is our dictionary.
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When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.
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Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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Cuando no sea más nada, ¿no seré más nada? ¡Cómo quisiera no ser más nada cuando no sea más nada!
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People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'
