W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
Nate Holland -
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Yahya Jammeh -
I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
AJ McLean -
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
Orson Welles -
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
Rand Paul -
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 -
I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
Karrie Webb -
I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
Mara Wilson -
I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
FKA twigs
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
Kate Williams -
If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
Sam Farr -
For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
Naomi Weisstein -
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Basil Hume -
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash
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I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.
Edy Ganem -
Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
Brian Tracy -
People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.
Sandra Cisneros -
First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.
Murray Head -
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
Andrew Carnegie -
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham