W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

Topics

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I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Michael Gove

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I'm not sitting around, waiting for something to run across the Internet so I can go, 'Oh, that's what I'mma write about.' I just go around, live life, make music, and it's epic.

Russ

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In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.

Mike Quigley

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I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels.

Milos Zeman

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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

LL Cool J

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To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.

Dionne Warwick

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Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

Diana Gabaldon

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That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

Diablo Cody

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The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

Deborah Tannen

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Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

Bob Goff

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We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.

Pete Gallego

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