W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.
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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
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My mom died when I was 11 years old.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
