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?
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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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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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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 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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All records are not made to be broken.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.
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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
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I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical.
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The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
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The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street.
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Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.
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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?
