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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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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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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All this fighting stems from the illusion that people choose to learn a language for rational reasons, that they are looking for the language that has the most useful features, the best agenda. But no one is out there comparison shopping for an artificial language. They find what they like, and there's no accounting for taste.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
