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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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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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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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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If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
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If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.
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There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.
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I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
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If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.
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The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.
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I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
