W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
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I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there's no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
