W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
Victoria Pratt -
I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
Taye Diggs -
My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
Tamora Pierce -
I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
Adam Cohen -
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
Orson Welles -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
Hari Kondabolu -
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
Laura Mvula -
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
Lamar Alexander
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
Yani Tseng -
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Salman Rushdie -
I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
Yolanda Adams -
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall -
So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
Abraham Verghese
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I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.
Tyson Gay -
It's all about becoming a more well-rounded player and not a one-dimensional player. You might hear someone say, 'Hilton Head sets up well for them.' I don't want that stereotype.
Peter Uihlein -
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.
B. C. Forbes -
Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.
David Oyelowo -
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham