W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's Clinton numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President Barack Obama.
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I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.
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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
