W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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I'm what they call the love addict!
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I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
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I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
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I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done.
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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
