W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
Samuel Hopkins
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
Karen DeCrow
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
Mae Whitman
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
Pat Summerall
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
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So much technology, so little talent.
Vernor Vinge
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
Anthony Trollope
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
Abby Wambach
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The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.
Arthur Symons
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham