W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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.
Barbara Kruger -
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Daniel Burnham -
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford -
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler -
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland -
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
Halle Berry -
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.
J. M. Coetzee -
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
Karen Thompson Walker -
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.
Dan Hicks -
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
Valentina Tereshkova -
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.
Eamon de Valera
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason -
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
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.
Haile Selassie -
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
Flo Rida -
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
Maggie Hassan
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He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.
Joe Bastianich -
Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
Kurt Vonnegut -
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
Joanne Rowling -
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.
Mark Levin -
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.
Peter Schiff -
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham