W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

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• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

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• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

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• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  

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• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

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• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

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• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
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• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

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• Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

  

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  

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• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

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• There's room for role models who make mistakes.

  

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• I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.

  

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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.

  

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• What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

  

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

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• The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

  

  Edward Lear
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• Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!

  

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• They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?

  

  Kai Greene
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  • Fun
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• We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful