W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
