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 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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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
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We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
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When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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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.
