W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
Tariq Ali -
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
Park Chung-hee -
I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
Dan Fogelman -
When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
Adam Hasner
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
Patrick Fischler -
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon -
SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
Safra A. Catz -
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
Aaron Carter -
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
Cao Yu -
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
Walt Mossberg -
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
Christina Romer
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Edna O'Brien -
We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
Elias Hicks -
I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
Christopher Walken -
I can't write what I don't believe in.
Dorothy Allison -
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham