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.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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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.
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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.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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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.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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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.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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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.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.
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Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped.
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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.
