W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
