W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
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'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
