W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
Quotes to Explore
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
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“The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.”
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Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
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The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
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Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
