W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
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When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
