W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
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Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
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When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
