W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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When there was pain or hurt, or bad memories crowded in, work could be a literal lifeline, taking your mind away from what you couldn't deal with and channeling it into something good, something tangible.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
