W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
Barry Humphries -
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Harold Washington -
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
Washed Out -
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
Walter Cronkite -
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein -
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
Wayne Grady
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus -
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
Oscar Robertson -
The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
Ina Garten -
I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.
Fleur East -
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.
Randy Neugebauer -
Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn -
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
Danica McKellar -
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
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I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.
Andie MacDowell -
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Xavier Rudd -
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
Doris Roberts -
While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.
Ellen Willis -
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
W. Somerset Maugham