W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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I studied Morse code.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
