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If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head.


P. G. Wodehouse

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P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
G-EAZY Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.
WARREN G My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo...
WARREN G I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trade...
WARREN G If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike S...
WARREN G For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald...
WARREN G Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio...
WARREN G Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've...
WARREN G