W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I find the business world hard.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
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[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
