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.W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Daniel Barenboim -
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed -
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.
Raekwon -
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Iain Sinclair -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten
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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.
Xavier Becerra -
I studied Morse code.
Adam Driver -
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
Taylor Hackford -
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.
Jack Dangermond -
I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
Caitlyn Jenner -
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.
Patrick Duffy
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
Tamra Davis -
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
Daniel Craig -
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie -
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Saint Augustine -
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
Iain McGilchrist -
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
Uday Kotak -
I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.
Irrfan Khan -
The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.
Johan Cruyff -
On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.
John Donne -
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
Corazon Aquino -
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.
W. Somerset Maugham