W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
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My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.
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Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
