W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet -
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
Barry Sanders -
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
Warren Beatty -
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White -
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
LaToya Jackson
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty -
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
Ed Sheeran -
I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
Danica Patrick -
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
Orison Swett Marden -
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton -
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
Fat Joe
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
J. B. Pritzker -
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz -
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
Irwin Redlener -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke -
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
Zahi Hawass -
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera -
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo -
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus -
Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham