W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.
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I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.
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For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.
