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.
Zach Anner
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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?
Ian Mckellen
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Earl Nightingale
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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.
Vernon Howard
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Ville Valo HIM
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
Ice Cube
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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!'
Zack Snyder
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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.
Dan Webster
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
Kapil Sibal
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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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.
Maika Monroe
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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.
Barbara Mikulski
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
Olivia Colman
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
K. A. Applegate
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
Vanessa Marano
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
Mackenzie Foy
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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.
Nas
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So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
Elizabeth McGovern
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If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.
Nicki Minaj
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
George Foreman
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A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
W. Somerset Maugham