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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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
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• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
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• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
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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.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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  • Connection
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• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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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.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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  • Life
  • May

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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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.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
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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.

  

  Rachael Taylor
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• There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

  

  Clarence Day
  • World
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• The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.

  

  Nicholas Bloom
  • Industry
  • Labor
  • High-Tech

• I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

  

  Neneh Cherry
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  • Star

• The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.

  

  Lesley Gore
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• Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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