W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
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You are in front of your brother, but your mind is on many other things, so you don’t really see your brother. Maybe he is having some trouble, but you don’t see it, not even when you share the same room. But mindfulness brings you there, to the present, and then you see. Train yourself all day long to bring your mind to your body and to be present with your food, your friends, your work, everything, because the more you concentrate, the deeper you will see.
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
