W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
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You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
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I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.
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A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
