W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara -
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
Nancy Sinatra -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
Jack Keane
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers -
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
Ed Rendell
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West -
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
T. D. Jakes -
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
Gabriel Basso -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Mallory Ortberg -
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
Jerry Seinfeld -
If you look at zombie movies throughout history, they're always making adjustments. Even the idea of the virus zombies and the back-from-the-dead zombies... there's been tons of tweaks.
Jeff Baena -
She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.
Cheryl Tiegs -
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
William Hazlitt -
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
W. Somerset Maugham