P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
Nancy Lopez -
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans -
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann -
When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
D. B. Sweeney -
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon -
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
Om Puri -
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton -
It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
Maelle Gavet -
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
Pat Metheny
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
Vanessa Bayer -
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White -
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson -
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
Victoria Osteen -
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
Pankaj Mishra -
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
Gabriel Mann
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
Fran Lebowitz -
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
Ban Ki-moon -
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
Vernon Howard -
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
Bill Budge -
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
P. G. Wodehouse