W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.
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You have to learn how to listen to your emotions, letting your internal compass guide you. Your emotions let you know when you are on and off track.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
