W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

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• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  

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• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

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• My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

  

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• The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

  

  Eden Robinson
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• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
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• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

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• When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  

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• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
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• I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.

  

  Taran Killam
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• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

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• At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

  

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• Sans doute vos chrétiens, qu'on persécute en vain,Ont quelque chose en eux qui surpasse l'humain:Ils mènent une vie avec tant d'innocence,Que le ciel leur en doit quelque reconnaissance;Se relever plus forts, plus ils sont abattus,N'est pas aussi l'effet des communes vertus.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.

  

  Haruki Murakami
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• As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Difference