W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
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Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
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It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
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First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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I kind of look at this as a bookmark in my life, and once it’s over, I’m excited for what I can accomplish as both a soccer player and a runner.
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The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
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Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
