W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I don't like possessions.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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When Dad came home from work, he'd turn our family dinners into tutorials on business, money, sales, and profit margins. He shared fascinating stories about his customers, marketing, and my favorite topic when I was a kid - new product launches. Our father also took us to his office before the advent of 'Take Your Child to Work Day.'
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
