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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Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, ... We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep? (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
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It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.
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In an odd way, it is refreshing to be around people who aren't attention-starved and media-addicted.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
