W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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How lucky am I?
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!
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You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.
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We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
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All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.
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My office, while committed to working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in our investigation of the mutual fund industry, will not be party to settlements that fail to protect the interests of investors and let the industry off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.
