P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
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There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
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Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
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Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.
