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.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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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.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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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.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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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.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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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.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
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You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.
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I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.
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There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
