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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
I don't like possessions.
-
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
-
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.
-
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
-
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
-
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
-
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
-
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
-
I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
-
I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
-
Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.
-
Within every word there is the unhealable wound of language.
-
I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.
-
The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.
-
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
-
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.
