W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I know all the critics.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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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 hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
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I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
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We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.
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I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.
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I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.
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I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
