W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.W. Somerset Maugham
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
Earl Scruggs -
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso -
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
Jackson Rathbone -
I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
Garry Shandling -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David -
There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
Barbara Palvin -
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
Gabrielle Giffords -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
Yanis Varoufakis
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
Randeep Hooda -
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons -
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I can't help who I fall in love with.
Jessie Buckley -
It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
Blaise Pascal -
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.
Jim Thome -
The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.
Antoine Lavoisier -
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
W. Somerset Maugham