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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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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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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I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
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You try to stay in the moment and act like you're singing the song for the first time. You try to have a good time yourself. That's the most important thing. If you're having a good time, people will join you.
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.
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I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.
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Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
