W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Omar Epps
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
Pamela Anderson
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
Jack Whitehall
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
Rachel Kushner
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
Vicente del Bosque
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
Rachel Stevens
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
Yuna
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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
Beilby Porteus
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
Ziad Doueiri
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Barry Goldwater
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You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
