P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
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In the larger scale of things, his opinions didn’t count anyhow. The politicians made the decisions, and the voters paid no attention.
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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I do not ask my cross to understandMy way to see:Better in darkness just to feel Thy handAnd follow Thee.
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Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.
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Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
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Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
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Port-wine, he says, when rich and sound, Warms his old bones like nectar: And as the inns, where it is found, Are his especial hunting-ground, We call him the INN-SPECTRE.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.
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A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.
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Healing is a moral thing to do.
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Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
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All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
