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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The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
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Kansas City is just a great place. I love the fans.
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The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.
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There are people, also, who cannot believe that beauty and gaiety are a part of goodness. When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
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It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
