W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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I don't run behind authority.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
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I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
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I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.
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The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
