W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.
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How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morne not waking til she sings.
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.
